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East and West Flotmanby in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Torbar COUNTY: Yorkshire

East and West Flotmanby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire. The survey assessed East and West Flotmanby at 4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, East and West Flotmanby supported a recorded population of 17 villagers, 18 smallholders, 10 slaves, working 5 ploughs between them.

The survey records East and West Flotmanby’s value at 2.5 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.

Resources Recorded at East and West Flotmanby (1086)

  • Cattle: 2
  • Sheep: 30
  • Woodland: 30 acres

Other Settlements in Torbar

Location

54.1998°N, -0.3519°W · Torbar hundred, Yorkshire

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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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