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Brompton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Brompton, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Brompton at 4 carucates of taxable land.

Most significantly, Brompton is recorded as waste in 1086 — land rendered uninhabitable and valueless. Before the Conquest, the settlement had been assessed at 1 shilling; by 1086 that value had collapsed entirely. This pattern — prosperity before 1066, devastation by 1086 — is the unmistakable signature of the Harrying of the North, William I’s campaign of systematic destruction across Yorkshire in 1069–70.

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Broomhall in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Broomhall, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire. The survey assessed Broomhall at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Broomhall supported a recorded population of 3 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Broomhall’s value at 1.5 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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