South Cliffe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of South Cliffe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire. The survey assessed South Cliffe at 3 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, South Cliffe supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records South Cliffe’s value at 3.5 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 South Cliffe (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 7d)
Other Settlements in Cave
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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