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Cawton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Cawton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Cawton at 15.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Cawton supported a recorded population of 24 villagers, 19 smallholders, 6 freemanmen, working 11 ploughs between them.

The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Cawton was worth 9.25 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 8.15 shillings – a fall of 11%. 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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Cayton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Cayton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Cayton at 8.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Cayton supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, 18 smallholders, 1 slave, 37 freemanmen, working 12 ploughs between them.

The survey lists 2 manors at Cayton under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

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Cayton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Cayton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Cayton at 5.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Cayton supported a recorded population of 43 villagers, 23 smallholders, 24 slaves, working 20 ploughs between them.

The survey records Cayton’s value at 7.5 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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