Gisburn in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Gisburn is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Gisburn at 60.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Gisburn supported a recorded population of 11 villagers, 19 smallholders, 5 freemanmen, working 13 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Gisburn was worth 10 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 3 shillings – a fall of 70%. 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 Gisburn (1086)
- Churches: 1
- Meadow: 4 acres
- Woodland: 2 leagues + 3 furlongs * 2 leagues + 3 furlongs & 9 * 9 leagues mixed measures
Other Settlements in Craven
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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