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Great Driffield in the Domesday Book (1086)

Great Driffield is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Driffield in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Driffield

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Driffield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a open land’.

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Great Eccleston in the Domesday Book (1086)

Great Eccleston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Eccleston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

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Great Edstone in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Great Edstone is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Maneshou

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Great Edstone is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Great Fencote in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Great Fencote, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Great Fencote is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Great Givendale in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Great Givendale is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warter in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Warter

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Givendale is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word dalr, a valley. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a valley’.

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Great Hatfield in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Great Hatfield, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Hatfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a open land’.

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Great Houghton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Great Houghton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Houghton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

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Great Kelk in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Great Kelk is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Torbar

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Great Kelk is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Great Kendale in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Great Kendale is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Driffield in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Great Kendale at 0.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Great Kendale supported a recorded population of 2 smallholders, 1 slave, working 1 plough between them.

The survey records Great Kendale’s value at 5d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

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