Thorpe Willoughby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Thorpe Willoughby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Thorpe Willoughby at 0.4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Thorpe Willoughby supported a recorded population of 14 villagers, 8 smallholders, 3 slaves, working 8 ploughs between them.
The survey records Thorpe Willoughby’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 Thorpe Willoughby (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 4d)
- Cattle: 5
- Pigs: 6
- Sheep: 68
- Meadow: 7 * 2 furlongs
Other Settlements in Barkston
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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