Northallerton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Northallerton, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Northallerton at 50.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Northallerton supported a recorded population of 14 villagers, 7 smallholders, 10 freemanmen, working 10 ploughs between them.
The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Northallerton was worth 56 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 6 shillings – a fall of 89%. 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 Northallerton (1086)
- Meadow: 100 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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