North Anston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of North Anston, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire. The survey assessed North Anston at 5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, North Anston supported a recorded population of 13 villagers, 9 smallholders, 5 slaves, working 11 ploughs between them.
The survey records North Anston’s value at 7 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 North Anston (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 5d)
- Cattle: 13
- Pigs: 7
- Sheep: 61
- Meadow: 10 acres
- Woodland: 100 acres
Other Settlements in Strafforth
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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