Old Boulby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Old Boulby is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Old Boulby at 3.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Old Boulby supported a recorded population of 40 smallholders, 1 slave, 35 freemanmen, working 5 ploughs between them.
The survey records Old Boulby’s value at 3.6 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 3 manors at Old Boulby 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 Old Boulby (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill
- Churches: 1
- Fisheries: 0
- Salthouses: 1
- Meadow: 3 acres
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
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.
Found an inaccuracy? [email protected]