Lach Dennis in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Lach Dennis is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire. The survey assessed Lach Dennis at 7 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Lach Dennis supported a recorded population of 11 villagers, 2 smallholders, 3 freemanmen, working 8 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Lach Dennis was worth 4 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 2.06 shillings – a fall of 48%. 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 Lach Dennis (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 1d)
- Churches: 1
- Meadow: 35 acres
- Woodland: 2 leagues * 3 furlongs mixed measures
Other Settlements in Middlewich
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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