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Hebden in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Craven COUNTY: Yorkshire

The settlement of Hebden is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Hebden at 3.4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Hebden supported a recorded population of 14 smallholders, 3 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Hebden’s value at 5 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Resources Recorded at Hebden (1086)

  • Cattle: 8
  • Pigs: 6
  • Sheep: 20
  • Meadow: 4 acres
  • Woodland: 40 pigs

Other Settlements in Craven

Location

54.0582°N, -1.9618°W · Craven 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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