Great and Little Altcar in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Great and Little Altcar, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire. The survey assessed Great and Little Altcar at 1.4 carucates of taxable land.
The survey records Great and Little Altcar’s value at 1.16 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 3 manors at Great and Little Altcar 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.
Other Settlements in [West] Derby
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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