Leppington in the Domesday Book (1086)
Leppington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Acklam in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Leppington at 18.5 carucates of taxable land.
The survey records Leppington’s value at 0d 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 Domesday survey records Leppington as waste — uninhabited and unproductive. In Yorkshire, this designation most often reflects the Harrying of the North of 1069–70, when William I’s forces destroyed crops, livestock, and communities across the county to crush rebellion. Whether Leppington recovered in subsequent decades is not recorded.
The survey lists 2 manors at Leppington 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.
Other Settlements in Acklam
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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