However, its usage continued following the ascendancy of the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans – as was demonstrated by its many appearances in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Usage of Craven in the Domesday Book is, therefore, circumstantial evidence of an extinct, British or Anglo-Saxon kingdom or subnational entity (such as a shire or earldom).

[1] It has also been proposed that the first Yorkshire was smaller, much as it was up till 1974, and that Amounderness, Cartmel, Furness, Kendale, Copeland and Lonsdale were attached to it in the Domesday Book, merely for administrative convenience.

[2][3][4][5] The Domesday Book (1086) was essentially an economic census of England, completed during the reign of William the Conqueror, to find out how much each landholder had in arable land and what that land was worth in terms of the taxes they used to pay under Edward the Confessor.

The areas of ploughland were counted in carucates: the land a farmer could manage throughout the year with a team of eight oxen.

Some carucates are designated Waste, many of these were devastated and depopulated by the Norman army during the Harrying of the North 1069–70, ca.17 years prior to this survey.

Cononley Bradleys Both Farnhill Kildwick Eastburn Utley Keighley Wilsden Newsholme[7] Laycock Sutton-in-Craven Melling-with-Wrayton, Hornby-with-Farleton, Wennington Thornton in Lonsdale, Burrow-with-Burrow

Rimington, Crooks, Little Middop, Starkeshergh Bolton-by-Bowland, Raygill Moss, Holme Painley, Gisburn, Paythorne, Newsholme, Ellenthorpe Nappa, Horton Thornton in Craven, Kelbrook Swinden, Hellifield, Malham, Coniston Cold Glusburn and Chelsis

Grassington, Linton, Threshfield Eastburn, Steeton Glusburn and Chelsis Oakworth

William Farrer had connected them with Craven as parts of Kettlewell, although no longer traceable.

Hugh FitzBaldric In 1066 a nephew of Ralph Tesson, Ernies de Buron, from Beuron near Mantes, Normandy[10] provided William the Conqueror with money, men and the ships for the invasion of England.

Erneis du Buron Osbern de Arches (1059–1115) became High Sheriff of Yorkshire ca1100.

[1] Sometime after Domesday Poitou had given Bowland to Robert de Lacy, the Baron of Pontefract.