Newsham Grange in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Newsham Grange is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Newsham Grange at 24.3 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Newsham Grange supported a recorded population of 14 villagers, 8 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Newsham Grange was worth 24.37 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 12.85 shillings – a fall of 47%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.
The survey lists 4 manors at Newsham Grange 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 Newsham Grange (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 12d)
- Churches: 1
- Fisheries: 4
- Meadow: 15 acres
Other Settlements in Allerton
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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