Ecclesfield in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ecclesfield, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ecclesfield at 16.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Ecclesfield supported a recorded population of 60 villagers, 30 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 30 ploughs between them.
The survey records Ecclesfield’s value at 7 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 Ecclesfield (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 5d)
- Meadow: 27 acres
- Woodland: 1 * 0.5 leagues
Other Settlements in Strafforth
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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