East and West Flotmanby in the Domesday Book (1086)
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
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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