The settlement of Tansterne is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Tansterne at 30 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Tansterne supported a recorded population of 42 villagers, 30 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 29 ploughs between them.

The survey records Tansterne’s value at 32.5 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 Tansterne (1086)

Mills: 4 mills (valued at 1.03 shillings)
Cattle: 12
Pigs: 20
Sheep: 123
Horses (cobs): 2
Meadow: 95 acres
Woodland: 1.5 leagues * 2 furlongs & 9 * 1.5 furlongs mixed measures

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Tansterne is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Tansterne.

Tansterne Today

Today Tansterne lies within the administrative area of Aldbrough.

Read more about modern Tansterne on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Etherdwick - 1.0 km E
Flinton - 1.0 km S
West Carlton - 1.4 km NW
Aldbrough - 2.2 km NE
Fosham - 2.2 km NW
Bewick Hall - 2.2 km NE

Heritage Around Tansterne

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Tansterne in the Domesday Book (1086)