The settlement of West Bradford is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
The settlement of West Bretton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire. The survey assessed West Bretton at 3.2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, West Bretton supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, working 4 ploughs between them.
By 1086 West Bretton was worth 4 shillings, up from 2 shillings before the Conquest – a sign this community came through the Conquest without being ruined.
West Burton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed West Burton at 6.6 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, West Burton supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 6 smallholders, 2 freemanmen, working 4 ploughs between them.
The survey records West Burton’s value at 4 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.
West Carlton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed West Carlton at 15 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, West Carlton supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 8 smallholders, working 7 ploughs between them.
Something went badly wrong here between the two surveys. Before 1066, West Carlton was worth 15 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 10 shillings – a fall of 33%. 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.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of West Cottingwith, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of West Derby, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire.
West Hardwick is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.
West Harlsey appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
West Hauxwell is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.