Normanton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Normanton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Normanton at 4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Normanton supported a recorded population of 13 villagers, 7 smallholders, working 8 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Normanton was worth 4 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 2 shillings – a fall of 50%. 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.
Resources Recorded at Normanton (1086)
- Mills: 2 mills (valued at 8d)
Other Settlements in Litchurch
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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