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Riccall in the Domesday Book (1086)

Riccall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Riccall at 0.6 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Riccall supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 3 smallholders, 5 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Riccall’s value at 2.12 shillings 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.