Womersley, North Yorkshire

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Womersley is a village in North Yorkshire

Parish/Community: Womersley
District/Borough: Selby
County: North Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and The Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°39'54"N 1°11'49"W
Eastings/Northings: 453144, 419040
OS Grid: SE531190
Mapcode Local: GBR NV21.LV
Mapcode Global: WHDCG.L43J

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

Womersley in historic gazetteers

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

Womersley, par., township, and vil. with ry. sta., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - par., 7013 ac., pop. 864; township, 3991 ac., pop. 376; vil., 5 miles SE. of Pontefract; P.O.; in vicinity is W. Park, seat.

Womersley in the Domesday Book

A village in Osgodcross hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Wege of Womersley
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ilbert of Lacy
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ilbert of Lacy
- Taxable Value: 6 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £5 in 1086
- Households: 14 villagers; 4 smallholders; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (6 plough lands)
- Meadow: 3 acres
- Woodland: 1 league
- Churches: 1

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British Place Names

Womersley, North Yorkshire

Womersley is a village in North Yorkshire

Womersley in historic gazetteers

Womersley in the Domesday Book