The settlement of Battersby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
The settlement of Baxby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Beadlam, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Beal appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.
Beamsley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Beamsley at 3 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Beamsley supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 8 smallholders, 5 slaves, working 2 ploughs between them.
The survey records Beamsley’s value at 3 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.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bearwardcote, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.
The settlement of Beckwith House is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
The settlement of Bedale is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Bedale at 4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Bedale supported a recorded population of 22 villagers, 18 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 7 ploughs between them.
By 1086 Bedale was worth 17.5 shillings, up from 7.5 shillings before the Conquest – a sign this community came through the Conquest without being ruined.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Beeford, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.