Grindleton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Grindleton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Grindleton at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Grindleton supported a recorded population of 31 villagers, 10 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 13 ploughs between them.
The survey records Grindleton’s value at 8 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 Grindleton (1086)
- Cattle: 26
- Pigs: 26
- Sheep: 70
- Meadow: 11 acres
- Woodland: 20 acres
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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