Flixton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Flixton, entered under the hundred of Hunthow in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Flixton at 3 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Flixton supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 5 smallholders, 1 slave, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records Flixton’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.
The survey lists 2 manors at Flixton 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 Flixton (1086)
- Cattle: 10
- Pigs: 12
- Sheep: 200
- Meadow: 20 None
Other Settlements in Hunthow
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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