Eastburn in the Domesday Book (1086)

Eastburn appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Driffield in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Eastburn at 0.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Eastburn supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, 3 smallholders, 1 slave, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey records Eastburn’s value at 1 shilling 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 Eastburn (1086)

• Cattle: 3
• Pigs: 2
• Sheep: 100
• Meadow: 5 acres

Other Settlements in Driffield

• Bainton
• Cranswick
• Hutton [Cranswick]
• Kelleythorpe
• Neswick [Hall]
• Rotsea
• Skerne
• Southburn
• Tibthorpe
• Torp
• [Great] Driffield
• [Great] Kendale
• [Kirk]burn
• [Little] Driffield

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Eastburn is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Eastburn.

Scheduled Monuments Near Eastburn

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Eastburn:

• Site of deserted village of Eastburn - 0.46 km

Eastburn Today

Today Eastburn lies within the administrative area of Kirkburn.

Read more about modern Eastburn on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Southburn - 1.4 km SW
• Kirkburn - 2.0 km W
• Kelleythorpe - 2.2 km NE
• Old Sunderlandwick - 2.2 km SE
• Little Driffield - 2.2 km NE
• Tibthorpe - 3.0 km W