East Newton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of East Newton, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed East Newton at 6.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, East Newton supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 24 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 23 ploughs between them.
The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, East Newton was worth 5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 4 shillings – a fall of 19%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.
Resources Recorded at East Newton (1086)
- Mills: 2 mills
- Churches: 1
- Woodland: 100 pigs
Other Settlements in Maneshou
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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