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Breck in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Langbaurgh COUNTY: Yorkshire

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

Location

54.4906°N, -0.6027°W · Langbaurgh 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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