Bolton upon Dearne in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bolton upon Dearne, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Bolton upon Dearne at 124 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Bolton upon Dearne supported a recorded population of 262 villagers, 147 smallholders, 136 slaves, working 197 ploughs between them.
The survey records Bolton upon Dearne’s value at 170 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 Bolton upon Dearne (1086)
- Mills: 10 mills (valued at 3.47 shillings)
Other Settlements in Strafforth
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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