Vlvritune in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Vlvritune, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire. The survey assessed Vlvritune at 2.5 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Vlvritune supported a recorded population of 11 villagers, 7 smallholders, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records Vlvritune’s value at 1.1 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 2 manors at Vlvritune 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 Vlvritune (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill
- Meadow: 3 None
Other Settlements in Morleystone
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.
Found an inaccuracy? [email protected]