sentences:  In the Domesday Book of 1086 Sandal is recorded as a "" (a village where barley was grown) in Wachefeld (Wakefield) where there was a church with a priest.The church was on the site of the present church of St Helen.William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (1081–1138) was granted the Sandal estates in 1107 and began the building of Sandal Castle which became the baronial seat of the lords of the manor of Wakefield.