Kirkburton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Kirkburton, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Kirkburton at 5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Kirkburton supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey puts Kirkburton’s value at 10d, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.
1 of 2 manors within Kirkburton are recorded as waste in 1086, with the remainder still productive. This partial devastation suggests the settlement was caught in the path of the Harrying of the North but not entirely destroyed — or that recovery had begun in some holdings by the time of the survey.
The survey lists 2 manors at Kirkburton 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 Kirkburton (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 2d)
- Meadow: 12 None
- Woodland: 5 * 3 None
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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