Wimboldsley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Wimboldsley is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Middlewich in Cheshire. The survey assessed Wimboldsley at 87 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Wimboldsley supported a recorded population of 30 villagers, working 9 ploughs between them.
The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Wimboldsley was worth 88 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1.01 shillings – a fall of 98%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.
Resources Recorded at Wimboldsley (1086)
- Meadow: 0.5 * 0.5 leagues & 20 acres mixed measures
- Woodland: 16 * 4 leagues
Other Settlements in Middlewich
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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