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Wetherby in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Wetherby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Wetherby at 4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Wetherby supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 2 slaves, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey records Wetherby’s value at 3.5 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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Wheatley in the Domesday Book (1086)

Wheatley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Wheatley at 4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Wheatley supported a recorded population of 7 smallholders, 1 slave, working 2 ploughs between them.

The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Wheatley was worth 3.5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 2 shillings – a fall of 42%. 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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