Scagglethorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Scagglethorpe, entered under the hundred of Scard in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Scagglethorpe at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Scagglethorpe supported a recorded population of 8 freemanmen, working 1 plough between them.
The survey records Scagglethorpe’s value at 1d 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 2 manors at Scagglethorpe 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 Scagglethorpe (1086)
- Meadow: 2 None
Other Settlements in Scard
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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