The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Breck, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Breck at 5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Breck supported a recorded population of 24 villagers, 8 smallholders, 5 slaves, working 13 ploughs between them.

The survey records Breck’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 Breck (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 5d)
Sheep: 40
Meadow: 50 acres
Woodland: 7 * 1 furlongs

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Breck is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Breck.

Listed Buildings Near Breck

Historic England records 405 listed buildings within about a mile of Breck. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I