Beighton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Beighton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Beighton at 2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Beighton supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 8 smallholders, working 5 ploughs between them.
The survey records Beighton’s value at 2 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 Beighton (1086)
- Meadow: 1 acres
- Woodland: 2 * 0.5 leagues
Other Settlements in Scarsdale
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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