Ravensworth in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ravensworth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ravensworth at 20 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Ravensworth supported a recorded population of 42 villagers, 79 smallholders, 31 slaves, working 36 ploughs between them.
The survey records Ravensworth’s value at 40.5 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 Ravensworth (1086)
- Mills: 6 mills (valued at 1.03 shillings)
- Cattle: 35
- Pigs: 56
- Sheep: 500
- Horses (cobs): 4
- Meadow: 132.5 acres
- Woodland: 1 * 0.5 and 46 acres mixed measures
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
Location
54.4625°N, -1.7763°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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