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Bossall in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Bulford COUNTY: Yorkshire

Bossall appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Bossall at 5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Bossall supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 7 smallholders, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey records Bossall’s value at 6 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 Bossall (1086)

  • Sheep: 40
  • Horses (cobs): 1
  • Meadow: 4 * 2 furlongs
  • Woodland: 3 * 2 furlongs

Other Settlements in Bulford

Location

54.0353°N, -0.9082°W · Bulford hundred, Yorkshire

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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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