East Rigton in the Domesday Book (1086)
East Rigton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire. The survey assessed East Rigton at 0.4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, East Rigton supported a recorded population of 6 smallholders, 1 slave, working 4 ploughs between them.
The survey records East Rigton’s value at 15d 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 East Rigton 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 East Rigton (1086)
- Meadow: 4 None
- Woodland: 5 None
Other Settlements in Skyrack
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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