Brantingham in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Brantingham, entered under the hundred of Welton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Welton
- Bentley
- Brantingham [Thorpe]
- Cottingham
- Ellerker
- Elloughton
- Lund
- Pillwoods [Farm]
- Risby
- Skidby
- Toschetorp
- Walkington
- Wauldby
- Welton
- [Little] Weighton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Brantingham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.