North and South Newbald is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire. The survey assessed North and South Newbald at 7.1 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, North and South Newbald supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 16 smallholders, 1 slave, 20 freemanmen, working 9 ploughs between them.

By 1086 North and South Newbald was worth 8.25 shillings, up from 4.5 shillings before the Conquest – in contrast to many Yorkshire neighbours whose valuations collapsed.

The survey lists 3 manors at North and South Newbald 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 North and South Newbald (1086)

Mills: 2 mills
Churches: 1
Cattle: 15
Pigs: 50
Sheep: 130
Horses (cobs): 2
Fisheries: 0
Meadow: 16 acres
Woodland: 60 pigs

Other Settlements in Cave

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name North and South Newbald is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as North and South Newbald.

Listed Buildings Near North and South Newbald

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of North and South Newbald. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I