Hackforth, North Yorkshire

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Hackforth is a village in North Yorkshire

Parish/Community: Hackforth
District/Borough: Hambleton
County: North Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and The Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 54°20'11"N 1°37'36"W
Eastings/Northings: 424368, 493495
OS Grid: SE243934
Mapcode Local: GBR KL29.L9
Mapcode Global: WHC6T.Z8JH

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Hackforth within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Hackforth in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Hackforth, township, Hornby par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 4 miles NW. of Bedale, 1338 ac., pop. 158.

Hackforth in the Domesday Book

A village in Land of Count Alan hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Uhtred; Arnketil
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count Alan
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Geoffrey of Swaffham (subinfeudated); Odo the chamberlain (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 6 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 2/- in 1066; 16 shillings in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (3 plough lands)

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British Place Names

Hackforth, North Yorkshire

Hackforth is a village in North Yorkshire

Hackforth in historic gazetteers

Hackforth in the Domesday Book