The settlement of Cradeuuelle is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Cradeuuelle at 12 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Cradeuuelle supported a recorded population of 8 villagers, 2 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey records Cradeuuelle’s value at 4 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 Cradeuuelle (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 2d)
Horses (cobs): 1
Meadow: 50 acres
Woodland: 100 acres

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Cradeuuelle is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Cradeuuelle.

Listed Buildings Near Cradeuuelle

Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Cradeuuelle. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*