Mickle Trafford in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Mickle Trafford, entered under the hundred of Willaston in Cheshire. The survey assessed Mickle Trafford at 2.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Mickle Trafford supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 1 smallholder, 1 slave, 5 freemanmen, working 4 ploughs between them.
The survey puts Mickle Trafford’s value at 13d, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.
The survey lists 2 manors at Mickle Trafford 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 Mickle Trafford (1086)
- Churches: 1
- Meadow: 16 acres
- Woodland: 2 * 1 furlongs
Other Settlements in Willaston
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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