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British History
Nantwich in the Domesday Book (1086)
Nantwich is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire. The survey assessed Nantwich at 60.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Nantwich supported a recorded population of 224 villagers, 81 smallholders, 15 slaves, working 231 ploughs between them.
The survey records Nantwich’s value at 7d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
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