Belthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Belthorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Belthorpe at 3.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Belthorpe supported a recorded population of 2 villagers, 8 smallholders, 1 slave, 19 freemanmen, working 8 ploughs between them.
The survey records Belthorpe’s value at 3.61 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.
The survey lists 2 manors at Belthorpe 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.
Resources Recorded at Belthorpe (1086)
- Sheep: 170
- Horses (cobs): 1
- Salthouses: 0
- Meadow: 1 acres
Other Settlements in Pocklington
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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