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Click here for old photographs What do you know about East Yorkshire? You have probably heard of Beverley Minster, Flamborough Head, the Yorkshire Wolds, the Humber Bridge
but what about:-The Caves North and South Geographical and Historical information Latitude 53.46'.82N Longitude 038'85 W OS SE8910232445" A History of Caves North and South Introduction The following pages have been compiled in the hope that they not only prove of interest to both residents and visitors in the district, but may also be the means of preserving many interesting particulars of the area which may otherwise be lost. The Caves are two small villages (North and South) nestling in a valley at the south western foot of the Yorkshire Wold Hills. Situated in the East Riding of Yorkshire, approx 186 miles north of London, 12 miles south east from Beverley, 10 miles east by north from Howden, and about 7 miles south from Market Weighton. Both villages are idyllic places where there are still more trees than people and more ducks than there are trees, few places are more pleasantly situated than the villages of Caves North and South. Introduction Doomsday Book The important record of Doomsday was begun by order of William the Conqueror in the year 1080 and completed 1086. Commissioners were sent to every County. Juries were selected from all orders of Freemen, to give upon oath to the commissioners true information. These inquisitions were sent to Winchester and their contents methodized and formed into the record now known as Doomsday. It comprises two volumes; the description is generally : a. How many hides or carucates the land is gelded or taxed at. b. Whose name it was in at the time of King Edward. Who were the present owners, sub-tenants. What and how much was arable land, meadow, pastures and woods. What number of ploughs it will keep. What mills, salt pits and fisheries. How many freemen, sokemen, villanes (Villagers) bordars. What churches, how many priests. What land is waste, what the land was let for in the time of King Edward and what was the present rent. Explanation of Terms Used in Doomsday transcriptions: Bordars: boors or husbandmen holding, a little house with some land of husbandry bigger than a cottage. Sokemen: the most general were usually Saxons or lesser thanes. Young men - Yeomen. Villanes: so called because they lived mainly in the villages and were employed in works of the most sordid kind. Slaves generally owned by the Lord of the Manor who could be bought and sold as chattels. They were not allowed to acquire property of their own in land or goods. Their children were in the same state. Carucate: One hundred acres of land. Demesne: The Lords Manor places and all lands. An Oxgang: Originally as much land as an ox-team could plough in a year. Eight oxgangs, of fifteen acres each have been said to make a carucate but the quantity of land in an oxgang varied from eight to twenty-four acres.
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