Domesday Book
Yorkshire
Beamsley in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Craven
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COUNTY: Yorkshire
Beamsley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Beamsley at 3 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Beamsley supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 8 smallholders, 5 slaves, working 2 ploughs between them.
The survey records Beamsley’s value at 3 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.
Resources Recorded at Beamsley (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 5d)
- Meadow: 25 acres
Other Settlements in Craven
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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