Market Weighton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Market Weighton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Weighton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Market Weighton at 33.7 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Market Weighton supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, working 3 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Market Weighton was worth 32 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 6 shillings – a fall of 81%. 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 Market Weighton (1086)
- Meadow: 100 acres
Other Settlements in Weighton
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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