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Guiseley in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Skyrack COUNTY: Yorkshire

Guiseley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Guiseley at 1 carucate of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Guiseley supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 9 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 9 ploughs between them.

The survey records Guiseley’s value at 4 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 Guiseley (1086)

  • Cattle: 11
  • Pigs: 12
  • Sheep: 100
  • Meadow: 5 acres

Other Settlements in Skyrack

Location

53.8781°N, -1.7034°W · Skyrack hundred, Yorkshire

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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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