Domesday Book
Yorkshire
Kirk Ella in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Hessle
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COUNTY: Yorkshire
Kirk Ella appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hessle in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Kirk Ella at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Kirk Ella supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, 7 smallholders, 9 slaves, working 5 ploughs between them.
The survey records Kirk Ella’s value at 7.5 shillings 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.
Resources Recorded at Kirk Ella (1086)
- Mills: 2 mills (valued at 5d)
- Pigs: 13
- Sheep: 154
- Horses (cobs): 1
- Meadow: 90 acres
- Woodland: 46 acres
Other Settlements in Hessle
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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