Misperton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Misperton, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Misperton at 20 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Misperton supported a recorded population of 42 villagers, 10 smallholders, working 47 ploughs between them.
The survey records Misperton’s value at 21 shillings 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.
Resources Recorded at Misperton (1086)
- Woodland: 3 * 1 leagues
Other Settlements in Maneshou
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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