Hepworth in the Domesday Book (1086)
Hepworth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Hepworth at 2.2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Hepworth supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 1 smallholder, 8 freemanmen, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records Hepworth’s value at 19d 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.
The survey lists 2 manors at Hepworth 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 Hepworth (1086)
- Mills: 0 mills
- Meadow: 4 acres
Other Settlements in Agbrigg
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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