Cowthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Cowthorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Cowthorpe at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Cowthorpe supported a recorded population of 11 villagers, 6 smallholders, working 8 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Cowthorpe was worth 16 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 14 shillings – a fall of 12%. 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.
Resources Recorded at Cowthorpe (1086)
- Meadow: 200 acres
Other Settlements in Burghshire
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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