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Weel in the Domesday Book (1086)

Weel is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Weel is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Weeton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Weeton, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Weeton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

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Weeton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Weeton, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The name Weeton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

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Weeton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Weeton, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Weeton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

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Welburn in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Welburn is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Welburn at 1 carucate of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Welburn supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 4 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Welburn’s value at 1 shilling 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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Welburn in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Welburn is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Maneshou

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Welburn is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Welbury in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Welbury is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Welbury at 0.8 carucates of taxable land.

Other Settlements in Allerton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Welbury is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place, while the first element appears to represent a spring. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the a spring stronghold’.

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Welham in the Domesday Book (1086)

Welham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scard in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Scard

The Meaning of the Name

The name Welham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village, while the first element appears to represent a spring. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the a spring homestead’.

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Well in the Domesday Book (1086)

Well appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Well at 0.8 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Well supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 9 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 5 ploughs between them.

The survey records Well’s value at 2.12 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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