Upper Poppleton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Upper Poppleton, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Upper Poppleton at 7 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Upper Poppleton supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 7 smallholders, 3 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.
The survey records Upper Poppleton’s value at 7 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 Upper Poppleton (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 15d)
- Cattle: 9
- Pigs: 23
- Sheep: 100
- Horses (cobs): 1
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 4 * 2 furlongs
Other Settlements in Ainsty
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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