The settlement of Kex Moor is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Kex Moor at 12 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Kex Moor supported a recorded population of 5 villagers, 57 freemanmen, working 14 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Kex Moor was worth 10 shillings, up from 6 shillings before the Conquest – a sign this community came through the Conquest without being ruined.

The survey lists 2 manors at Kex Moor 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 Kex Moor (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 3d)
Churches: 1
Meadow: 60 acres

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Kex Moor 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 Kex Moor.

Listed Buildings Near Kex Moor

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Kex Moor. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II