Carperby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Carperby, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Carperby at 1 carucate of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Carperby supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, 2 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 2 ploughs between them.
The survey records Carperby’s value at 1 shilling 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.
The survey lists 2 manors at Carperby 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 Carperby (1086)
- Sheep: 17
- Meadow: 1 acres
- Woodland: 2 acres
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
Location
54.3009°N, -1.9923°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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