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Domesday Book


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British History

Thornton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thornton, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire. The survey assessed Thornton at 0.1 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Thornton supported a recorded population of 2 freemanmen.

The survey records Thornton’s value at 7d 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.