Domesday Book
Yorkshire
Thorpe Hill in the Domesday Book (1086)
YEAR: 1086
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HUNDRED: Bulford
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COUNTY: Yorkshire
Thorpe Hill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Thorpe Hill at 0.1 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Thorpe Hill supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 3 smallholders.
The survey records Thorpe Hill’s value at 5d 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 Thorpe Hill (1086)
- Pigs: 1
- Meadow: 6 acres
- Woodland: 40 acres
Other Settlements in Bulford
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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