Domesday Book
Cheshire
Romiley in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Hamestan
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COUNTY: Cheshire
Romiley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamestan in Cheshire. The survey assessed Romiley at 5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Romiley supported a recorded population of 5 villagers, 10 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 5 ploughs between them.
The survey records Romiley’s value at 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 Romiley (1086)
- Pigs: 9
- Horses (cobs): 2
- Meadow: 40 acres
- Woodland: 10 acres
Other Settlements in Hamestan
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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