Edingale in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Edingale, entered under the hundred of Offlow in STS. The survey assessed Edingale at 5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Edingale supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 9 smallholders, 7 slaves, 2 freemanmen, working 12 ploughs between them.
The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Edingale was worth 12 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 10 shillings – a fall of 16%. 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 Edingale (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 10d)
Other Settlements in Offlow
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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