Domesday Book
Yorkshire
Lower and Upper Thurnham in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Amounderness
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COUNTY: Yorkshire
Lower and Upper Thurnham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Lower and Upper Thurnham at 1 carucate of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Lower and Upper Thurnham supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 2 smallholders, working 1 plough between them.
The survey puts Lower and Upper Thurnham’s value at 10d, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
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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