Tansterne in the Domesday Book (1086)
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]
Location
53.8191°N, -0.1390°W · Holderness [Middle Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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