South Stainley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of South Stainley is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hallikeld in Yorkshire. The survey assessed South Stainley at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, South Stainley supported a recorded population of 19 villagers, 4 smallholders, working 7 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, South Stainley was worth 12 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 8 shillings – a fall of 33%. 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 South Stainley (1086)
- Meadow: 8 ploughs
Other Settlements in Hallikeld
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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