Swarkestone in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Swarkestone is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.
The settlement of Swarkestone is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.
Swarthorpe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Swaythorpe is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.
Swetton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Swillington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.
The settlement of Swinden is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
Swine appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Swinton, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Swinton, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Swinton at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Swinton supported a recorded population of 8 villagers, 10 smallholders, working 8 ploughs between them.
The survey records Swinton’s value at 2.5 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.