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Chapel Allerton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Chapel Allerton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Chapel Allerton at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Chapel Allerton supported a recorded population of 5 villagers, 8 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Chapel Allerton was worth 3 shillings, up from 2 shillings before the Conquest – in contrast to many Yorkshire neighbours whose valuations collapsed.

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Chatsworth in the Domesday Book (1086)

Chatsworth is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Blackwell in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Chatsworth at 0.2 carucates of taxable land.

The survey records Chatsworth’s value at 0d 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.

The Domesday survey records Chatsworth as waste — uninhabited and unproductive. In Yorkshire, this designation most often reflects the Harrying of the North of 1069–70, when William I’s forces destroyed crops, livestock, and communities across the county to crush rebellion. Whether Chatsworth recovered in subsequent decades is not recorded.

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