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Pentney at the Time of the
Domesday Book
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It was a number of years after King William came to power in 1066, that he decided to commission a countrywide survey. Now known as "The Domesday Book", this survey was a detailed statement of lands and resources that went with those lands. It enabled William to calculate the amount of taxes he could gather in, but it has also given us a detailed picture of England, as it was over 900 years ago.
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There are accounts written at the time, about the gathering of the facts. Robert, Bishop of Hereford wrote that the Kings men:-
"made a survey of all England; of the lands in each of the Counties; of the possessions of each of the magnates, their lands, their habitations, their men, both bond and free, living in huts or with their own houses or land; of ploughs, horses and other animals; of the services and payments due from each and every estate"
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What the Domesday Book says about Pentney
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"The Hundred and a Half of FREEBRIDGE.
Hagni held PENTNEY before 1066 as a Manor, 3 c. of land; now Robert of Vaux holds.
Always 11 villagers; 14 smallholders; 6 slaves.
3 ploughs in Lordship; 3 men's ploughs.
Meadow, 20 acres; 3 mills; one-third of a salt-house.
An outlier, (East Walton), appertains to this land, 1 c. of land.
Always 6 smallholders; 2 slaves.
Meadow, 16 acres; 3 cobs.
Always 16 acres; 3 cobs. Then 20 horses, now 7. Always 21 head of cattle; 30 pigs. Then 40 sheep, now 92. 7 beehives.
In the same, 10 Freemen, 72 acres. Always 1 plough.
Value of the whole before 1066 and when he acquired it 100s; now £7
Robert holds all this. (It has) 5 furlongs in length and 4 in width, 8d in tax.
(Belonging) to the Church 30 acres; value 2s 8d."
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Rita Sheridan,
Warwickshire, England
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