 Molescroft is listed in the "Domesday Book" as in the Hundred of Sneculfcros in the East Riding of Yorkshire.The settlement contained two households, two villagers, and two ploughlands.In 1066 Ealdred, Archbishop of York, was the Lord, this in 1086 transferred to the canons of Beverley Minster, and the later Archbishop of York Thomas of Bayeux who was also Tenant-in-chief to King William I.