Ellerker in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Ellerker is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Welton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ellerker at 70 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Ellerker supported a recorded population of 51 villagers, 70 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 45 ploughs between them.
The survey records Ellerker’s value at 95 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 Ellerker (1086)
- Mills: 6 mills (valued at 7d)
- Meadow: 30 acres
- Woodland: 1 league * 10 furlongs mixed measures
Other Settlements in Welton
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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