Great and Little Ribston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Great and Little Ribston is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Great and Little Ribston at 0.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Great and Little Ribston supported a recorded population of 2 villagers.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Great and Little Ribston was worth 1.5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1.36 shillings – a fall of 9%. 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 Great and Little Ribston (1086)
- Meadow: 6 acres
- Woodland: 2 * 1 furlongs
Other Settlements in Burghshire
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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