Domesday Book

Commissioned in 1085 by William the Conqueror, the Domesday book was was completed in 1086 and contained records for over13,000 settlements across all the English counties south of the rivers Tees and Ribble (the then border with Scotland).

The Domesday Book entry for Skipton reads:

Manor. In Bolton Earl Edwin had six carucates of land to be taxed.
Berwick. In Halton 6 car, In Embsay 3 car, inland and 3 car. Soke. Berwick. In Draughton 3 car, Skibeden 3 car, Skipton 4 car, Snaygill 6 car, Thorlby 10 car.
Soke. Beamsley 2 car, Holme 3 car.

 

The domesday book online site is at: www.domesdaybook.co.uk/

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