Salescale appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Salescale at 2.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Salescale supported a recorded population of 43 villagers, 53 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 39 ploughs between them.

The survey records Salescale’s value at 20.5 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.

The survey lists 3 manors at Salescale under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Salescale (1086)

Cattle: 5
Pigs: 12
Sheep: 200
Meadow: 2 None
Woodland: 80 None

Other Settlements in Maneshou

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Salescale is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Salescale.

Listed Buildings Near Salescale

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Salescale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II