Ravenfield in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Ravenfield is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ravenfield at 0.8 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Ravenfield supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 3 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.
The survey records Ravenfield’s value at 1.5 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.
Resources Recorded at Ravenfield (1086)
- Cattle: 9
- Pigs: 5
- Sheep: 50
- Horses (cobs): 1
- Meadow: 23.5 acres
Other Settlements in Strafforth
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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