Sicklinghall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Sicklinghall, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Sicklinghall at 1.2 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Sicklinghall supported a recorded population of 12 smallholders, 12 freemanmen, working 3 ploughs between them.
The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Sicklinghall was worth 1.35 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1.11 shillings – a fall of 17%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.
Resources Recorded at Sicklinghall (1086)
- Meadow: 16 acres
Other Settlements in Burghshire
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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