Cayton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Cayton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Cayton at 5.2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Cayton supported a recorded population of 43 villagers, 23 smallholders, 24 slaves, working 20 ploughs between them.
The survey records Cayton’s value at 7.5 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.
The survey lists 2 manors at Cayton 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 Cayton (1086)
- Cattle: 6
- Sheep: 206
- Meadow: 2 acres
- Woodland: 10 None
Other Settlements in Dic
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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