Painsthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Painsthorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Acklam in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Painsthorpe at 5.2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Painsthorpe supported a recorded population of 2 slaves.
The survey records Painsthorpe’s value at 2.31 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 5 manors at Painsthorpe 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 Painsthorpe (1086)
- Meadow: 1.5 acres
- Woodland: 1 acres
Other Settlements in Acklam
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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