Wetherby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Wetherby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Wetherby at 4 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Wetherby supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 2 slaves, working 2 ploughs between them.
The survey records Wetherby’s value at 3.5 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 Wetherby (1086)
- Meadow: 3 acres
Other Settlements in Burghshire
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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