Domesday Book
Yorkshire
Ruston in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Dic
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COUNTY: Yorkshire
Ruston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ruston at 124 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Ruston supported a recorded population of 262 villagers, 147 smallholders, 136 slaves, working 197 ploughs between them.
The survey records Ruston’s value at 170 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 Ruston (1086)
- Mills: 10 mills (valued at 3.47 shillings)
Other Settlements in Dic
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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