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Place: Cranswick
- Hundred: Driffield
- Area: East Riding
- County: Yorkshire
- Total population: 6.5 households (quite small).
- Total tax assessed: 13.0 geld units (very large).
Cranswick appears in 3 entries in Domesday Book (show all).
❧ ENTRY 1 ❧
- Head of manor: Great Driffield.
- Taxable units: Taxable value 73 geld units.
- Value: Value to lord in 1066 £40.
- Ploughland: 37 ploughlands (can plough).
- Lord in 1066: Earl Morcar.
- Lord in 1086: King William.
- Tenant-in-chief in 1086: King William.
- Places mentioned in this entry: Kilham; Cranswick; Eastburn; Elmswell; [Great] Driffield; [Great] Kendale; Kelleythorpe; [Kirk]burn; [Little] Driffield; Skerne; Southburn; Tibthorpe; Kilnwick.
- Phillimore reference: 1Y8
