Welburn in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Welburn is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Welburn at 1 carucate of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Welburn supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 4 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records Welburn’s value at 1 shilling 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 Welburn (1086)
- Sheep: 30
- Meadow: 3 acres
- Woodland: 10 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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