Trangesbi in the Domesday Book (1086)
Trangesbi is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Goscote in LEC. The survey assessed Trangesbi at 106.7 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Trangesbi supported a recorded population of 36 villagers, 31 smallholders, 4 slaves, 100 freemanmen, working 57 ploughs between them.
The survey records Trangesbi’s value at 25 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.
The survey lists 3 manors at Trangesbi under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.
Resources Recorded at Trangesbi (1086)
- Mills: 2 mills (valued at 1.25 shillings)
- Meadow: 104 acres
- Woodland: 1 * 1 furlongs
Other Settlements in Goscote
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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