Bowthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bowthorpe, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Bowthorpe at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Bowthorpe supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 12 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.
The survey records Bowthorpe’s value at 15 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 Bowthorpe (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 1 shilling)
- Meadow: 102 acres
- Woodland: 2 * 1 leagues
Other Settlements in Howden
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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