Newbold and Upper Newbold in the Domesday Book (1086)
Newbold and Upper Newbold appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Newbold and Upper Newbold at 3 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Newbold and Upper Newbold supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 2 smallholders, 8 slaves, working 5 ploughs between them.
The survey records Newbold and Upper Newbold’s value at 3 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 Newbold and Upper Newbold (1086)
- Cattle: 13
- Pigs: 17
- Sheep: 155
- Horses (cobs): 1
- Meadow: 10 acres
- Woodland: 1 * 1 leagues
Other Settlements in Scarsdale
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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