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Tanshelf in the Domesday Book (1086)

Tanshelf is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Tanshelf at 6 carucates of taxable land.

Most significantly, Tanshelf is recorded as waste in 1086 — land rendered uninhabitable and valueless. Before the Conquest, the settlement had been assessed at 1 shilling; by 1086 that value had collapsed entirely. This pattern — prosperity before 1066, devastation by 1086 — is the unmistakable signature of the Harrying of the North, William I’s campaign of systematic destruction across Yorkshire in 1069–70.

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Tansterne in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Tansterne is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Tansterne at 30 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Tansterne supported a recorded population of 42 villagers, 30 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 29 ploughs between them.

The survey records Tansterne’s value at 32.5 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.

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