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Hazelwood Castle in the Domesday Book (1086)

Hazelwood Castle is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Barkston

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hazelwood Castle 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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Headingley in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Headingley, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Skyrack

The Meaning of the Name

The name Headingley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

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Healaugh in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Ainsty

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Healaugh 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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Heanor in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Heanor, entered under the hundred of Morleystone in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Morleystone

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Heanor 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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Hearthcote in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hearthcote, entered under the hundred of Walecros in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Walecros

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hearthcote 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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Heathfield in the Domesday Book (1086)

Heathfield is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Heathfield at 0.4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Heathfield supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 11 smallholders, 8 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey records Heathfield’s value at 4 shillings 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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Heaton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Heaton 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 Heaton 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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Hebden in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Hebden is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Hebden at 3.4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Hebden supported a recorded population of 14 smallholders, 3 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Hebden’s value at 5 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

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Heldetune in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Heldetune, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Heldetune 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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