Domesday Book, Yorkshire (Document ID: 100824)
Extract from 1988 reprint of Domesday Book, the survey by William the Conqueror 1086.
Author: Unknown
Date: 1086
Location: Yorkshire
Format: Survey
Document ID: 100824
Library ID: 28180824
Page XLI from the "Domesday Book or the Great Survey of England of William the Conqueror A.D. 1086. Facsimile of the Part relating to Yorkshire."
Page XLI, as part of the lands of Ilbert de Lacy, has entries for parts of Calderdale:
"In Hortesheve [Hartshead] Gerneber had 2 carucates of land taxable where 1 plough is possible. Now Alsige has [it] from Ilbert. There, 3 villagers have one plough. Woodland pasture, 3 furlongs long and 3 wide. Value before 1066, 10 shillings; now 5 shillings."
"In Elant [Elland] Gamel had 3 carucates of land taxable where 2 ploughs are possible. Ilbert has [it] now. Waste. Value before 1066, 20 shillings. Woodland pasture, ? league long and 4 furlongs wide; meadow, 4 acres."
"In Overe [(South)Owram] Gamel had 3 carucates of land taxable where 2 ploughs are possible. Ilbert has [it]. Waste. Value before 1066, 20 shillings. Woodland pasture, 3 furlongs long and 3 wide."
Published by the Ordnance Survey Office of Southampton 1862.
For title page see document 100822, or for another extract see document 100823.
