Acaster Selby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Acaster Selby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Ainsty
- Acaster [Malbis]
- Acomb
- Appleton [Roebuck]
- Askham [Bryan]
- Askham [Richard]
- Bickerton
- Bilbrough
- Bilton
- Bishopthorpe
- Bithen
- Bolton [Percy]
- Catterton
- Colton
- Copmanthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Acaster Selby is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ceaster (from Latin castra), a Roman fort or walled town, while the first element appears to represent oak (OE āc). Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the oak Roman fort’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Acaster Selby.
Listed Buildings Near Acaster Selby
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Acaster Selby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Church of St John - 0.48 km
- Stillingfleet House - 0.68 km
- Manor Farm - 0.81 km
- Barn to College Farm - 1.04 km
- College Farmhouse - 1.04 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Acaster Selby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Acaster Selby:
Acaster Selby Today
Today Acaster Selby lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 41 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Acaster Selby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Stillingfleet - 2.0 km E
- Ryther - 2.2 km SW
- Appleton Roebuck - 2.8 km NW
- Kelfield - 2.8 km SE
- Moreby Hall - 3.6 km NE
- Bolton Percy - 4.1 km W
Heritage Around Acaster [Selby]
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Graham Hermon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gareth Foster · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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