The Harrying of the North in 1069-1070 affected the East Riding as severely as any other part of Yorkshire. William I's forces burned settlements, killed livestock, and destroyed stores of food. The Domesday Book, compiled sixteen years later, still recorded vast swathes of the East Riding as wasted — generating no taxable income. Orderic Vitalis estimated 100,000 people died from violence and subsequent famine. Even allowing for exaggeration, the East Riding's depopulation was catastrophic and reshaped settlement patterns for generations.
Estimates of 100,000 deaths from violence and famine across Yorkshire (Orderic Vitalis)
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