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, Lower and Upper Dunsforth was held by Ranulf.
When William the Conqueror's commissioners surveyed Lower and Upper Dunsforth in 1086, they recorded 2 manors held by Ranulf and Thorbiorn, under Erneis of Buron. Before the Conquest, in the time of King Edward, the land was held by Gospatric (son of Arnketil) and Thorbiorn.
The settlement was assessed at 6 hides for tax. There was land for 4 ploughs. Its recorded resources included meadow (6 acres). The manors were valued at 3 shillings in 1086, down from 1.8 pounds in 1066.
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 →
Lower and Upper Dunsforth 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 Lower and Upper Dunsforth'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 Lower and Upper Dunsforth.
1,529 recorded finds have been logged within about 5 miles of Lower and Upper Dunsforth, reported by members of the public and entered in the national record of archaeological finds. They span these periods:
The bedrock beneath Lower and Upper Dunsforth is Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated) (Triassic).
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.