Domesday Book
Cheshire
Occleston in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Middlewich
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COUNTY: Cheshire
Occleston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire. The survey assessed Occleston at 4 carucates of taxable land.
The numbers record a sharp fall. Before 1066, Occleston was worth 1.5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 5d – a fall of 83%. 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 Middlewich
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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