Monk Hay Stile in the Domesday Book (1086)
Monk Hay Stile is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Monk Hay Stile at 5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Monk Hay Stile supported a recorded population of 3 smallholders, 1 slave, working 2 ploughs between them.
The survey records Monk Hay Stile’s value at 5 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 Monk Hay Stile (1086)
- Meadow: 10 acres
Other Settlements in Barkston
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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