West Burton in the Domesday Book (1086)
West Burton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed West Burton at 6.6 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, West Burton supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 6 smallholders, 2 freemanmen, working 4 ploughs between them.
The survey records West Burton’s value at 4 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 West Burton (1086)
- Meadow: 40 acres
- Woodland: 6 * 1 furlongs
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
Location
54.2740°N, -1.9770°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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