A place in Yorkshire with a history you can trace through the records: its entry in the 1086 Domesday Book, the archaeological finds and scheduled monuments around it, and the nearest Roman sites and battlefields. Everything below is drawn from the historical record.
In 1086, Crooks House was held by William of Percy.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Crooks House in 1086, they recorded 2 manors held by William of Percy and Roger of Poitou. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Bernwulf and Ulf.
The settlement was assessed at 25.5 hides for tax.
The Domesday Book was the great survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror in 1085 and completed in 1086, the oldest surviving public record in the country. How the survey worked →
Crooks House was one of the settlements recorded in Yorkshire in the 1086 survey. Yorkshire in the Domesday survey →
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Crooks House's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Nationally registered historic battlefields within 25 miles of Crooks House.
357 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Crooks House, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Crooks House is Bowland High Group And Craven Group (Undifferentiated) (Bashkirian).
Aubrey's full report for this location includes every Domesday manor, the complete record of medieval lordship, archaeological context, and the story of how this settlement evolved from 1086 to the present day.