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Salescale in the Domesday Book (1086)

Salescale appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Salescale at 2.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Salescale supported a recorded population of 43 villagers, 53 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 39 ploughs between them.

The survey records Salescale’s value at 20.5 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.