Kilnsey in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Kilnsey is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Kilnsey at 92.4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Kilnsey supported a recorded population of 9 villagers, 22 smallholders, 11 freemanmen, working 13 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Kilnsey was worth 60 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 15 shillings – a fall of 75%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.
Resources Recorded at Kilnsey (1086)
- Churches: 2
- Woodland: 3 * 3 furlongs & 6 * 4 leagues mixed measures
Other Settlements in Craven
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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