Ormesby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Ormesby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ormesby at 9 carucates of taxable land.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Ormesby was worth 1.5 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 8d – a fall of 73%. 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.
The survey lists 2 manors at Ormesby 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.
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.
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