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Domesday Book


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British History

Ambaston in the Domesday Book (1086)

Ambaston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Ambaston at 5 carucates of taxable land.

The survey records Ambaston’s value at 1 shilling 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.

Other Settlements in Litchurch