Kirkby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Kirkby, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire. The survey assessed Kirkby at 15.2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Kirkby supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 3 smallholders, 23 freemanmen, working 12 ploughs between them.
The survey records Kirkby’s value at 4.5 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.
The survey lists 3 manors at Kirkby 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 Kirkby (1086)
- Meadow: 10 acres
Other Settlements in [West] Derby
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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