Butterwick in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Butterwick is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Butterwick at 4.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Butterwick supported a recorded population of 13 villagers, 16 smallholders, working 9 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Butterwick was worth 80.83 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 70.12 shillings – a fall of 13%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.
The survey lists 2 manors at Butterwick under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.
Resources Recorded at Butterwick (1086)
- Mills: 3 mills (valued at 1.37 shillings)
- Churches: 7
- Meadow: 50 acres
- Woodland: 3 swine render
Other Settlements in Burton
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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