Pockthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Pockthorpe, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Pockthorpe at 56.6 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Pockthorpe supported a recorded population of 39 villagers, 3 smallholders, 11 freemanmen, working 22 ploughs between them.
The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Pockthorpe was worth 20 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 13 shillings – a fall of 35%. 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.
Resources Recorded at Pockthorpe (1086)
- Mills: 4 mills (valued at 18d)
- Meadow: 1 league * 7 furlongs mixed measures
- Woodland: 4 * 4 furlongs
Other Settlements in Torbar
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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