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Wavertree in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Wavertree is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire. The survey assessed Wavertree at 5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Wavertree supported a recorded population of 9 villagers, 2 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Wavertree was worth 2 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1.5 shillings – a fall of 25%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

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Wawne in the Domesday Book (1086)

Wawne appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Wawne at 10 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Wawne supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 8 smallholders, 3 slaves, working 8 ploughs between them.

The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Wawne was worth 10 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 6.5 shillings – a fall of 35%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

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Weaverthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Weaverthorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Toreshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Weaverthorpe at 3.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Weaverthorpe supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 6 smallholders, 8 slaves, working 8 ploughs between them.

The survey records Weaverthorpe’s value at 6.25 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.

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