Domesday Book
Cheshire
Thornton in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: [West] Derby
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COUNTY: Cheshire
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thornton, entered under the hundred of [West] Derby in Cheshire. The survey assessed Thornton at 0.1 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Thornton supported a recorded population of 2 freemanmen.
The survey records Thornton’s value at 7d 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.
Other Settlements in [West] Derby
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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