Nantwich in the Domesday Book (1086)
Nantwich is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Warmundestrou in Cheshire. The survey assessed Nantwich at 60.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Nantwich supported a recorded population of 224 villagers, 81 smallholders, 15 slaves, working 231 ploughs between them.
The survey records Nantwich’s value at 7d 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.
The survey lists 2 manors at Nantwich 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 Nantwich (1086)
- Mills: 8 mills (valued at 5.4 shillings)
- Woodland: 6 * 3 None
Other Settlements in Warmundestrou
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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