Hart Carrs is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Hart Carrs at 1.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Hart Carrs supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 1 smallholder, 6 freemanmen, working 4 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Hart Carrs was worth 1.8 shillings, up from 1.7000000000000002 shillings before the Conquest – in contrast to many Yorkshire neighbours whose valuations collapsed.

The survey lists 3 manors at Hart Carrs 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.

Resources Recorded at Hart Carrs (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 4d)
Churches: 1

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hart Carrs is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hart Carrs.

Listed Buildings Near Hart Carrs

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Hart Carrs. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II