Beginning with the record of the vills of Grif and Tilstun in the Domesday Survey of 1086 and tracing the development of the farms from the Granges of Rievaulx Abbey from its surrender in December 1538. Reproducing estate surveys and rent rolls and tracing the histories of tenancies and some of the farming families. Click on the hyperlink above to reach a scannable and printable version of the farm histories in pdf format.
The village did not exist until the arrival of the Cistercian monks in 1132 and its progenitors were the abbey servants living at dwellings within the Manerium after the abbey lands were granted to the Duke of Rutland in 1539.
This history traces the growth of the secular village by reference to estate surveys, rent rolls, maps, populationn census and parish registers. Click on the hyperlink above to reach a scannable and printable version of the history in pdf format.
