Danthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Danthorpe, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Danthorpe at 2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Danthorpe supported a recorded population of 9 smallholders, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records Danthorpe’s value at 15 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 Danthorpe 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 Danthorpe (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 15d)
- Pigs: 11
- Sheep: 83
- Meadow: 26.5 None
- Woodland: 31 None
Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]
Location
53.7737°N, -0.1106°W · Holderness [Middle Hundred] 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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