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Swinton in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Maneshou COUNTY: Yorkshire

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Swinton, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Swinton at 10 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Swinton supported a recorded population of 8 villagers, 10 smallholders, working 8 ploughs between them.

The survey records Swinton’s value at 2.5 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 Swinton (1086)

  • Meadow: 10 acres

Other Settlements in Maneshou

Location

54.1516°N, -0.8439°W · Maneshou hundred, Yorkshire

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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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