Trangesbi in the Domesday Book (1086)
Trangesbi is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Goscote in LEC. The survey assessed Trangesbi at 106.7 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Trangesbi supported a recorded population of 36 villagers, 31 smallholders, 4 slaves, 100 freemanmen, working 57 ploughs between them.
The survey records Trangesbi’s value at 25 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.