Domesday Book
Yorkshire
Northorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Holderness [South Hundred]
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COUNTY: Yorkshire
Northorpe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Northorpe at 1 carucate of taxable land.
The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Northorpe was worth 6d; by 1086 that had dropped to 2d – a fall of 66%. 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.
Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]
Location
53.6071°N, 0.1692°E · Holderness [South Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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