North Ferriby in the Domesday Book (1086)
North Ferriby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hessle in Yorkshire. The survey assessed North Ferriby at 1.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, North Ferriby supported a recorded population of 4 smallholders, 3 slaves, working 1 plough between them.
The survey records North Ferriby’s value at 2.1 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.
The survey lists 2 manors at North Ferriby 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 Ferriby (1086)
- Pigs: 3
- Sheep: 10
- Meadow: 8 acres
- Woodland: 10 None
Other Settlements in Hessle
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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