Anlaby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Anlaby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hessle in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Hessle
- Breighton
- Bubwith
- Chetelestorp
- Chrachetorp
- Crachetorp
- Gunby
- Hessle
- Lund
- Myton
- Newsholme
- Riplingham
- Siuuarbi
- Spaldington
- Totfled
The Meaning of the Name
The name Anlaby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, 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’.