Cwybr in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Cwybr is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ati’s Cross in Cheshire. The survey assessed Cwybr at 1.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Cwybr supported a recorded population of 23 villagers, 13 smallholders, 8 slaves, working 17 ploughs between them.
The survey records Cwybr’s value at 10.5 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 Cwybr 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 Cwybr (1086)
- Cattle: 34
- Pigs: 8
- Sheep: 106
- Meadow: 4 acres
- Woodland: 5 acres
Other Settlements in Ati’s Cross
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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