Eccleston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Eccleston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Duddeston in Cheshire. The survey assessed Eccleston at 4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Eccleston supported a recorded population of 41 villagers, 30 smallholders, 20 slaves, working 35 ploughs between them.
The survey records Eccleston’s value at 107 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.
The survey lists 2 manors at Eccleston 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 Eccleston (1086)
- Mills: 8 mills (valued at 4.14 shillings)
- Churches: 3
- Cattle: 9
- Pigs: 108
- Sheep: 800
- Horses (cobs): 6
- Meadow: 111 acres
- Woodland: 3 * 1 leagues
Other Settlements in Duddeston
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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