Acklam in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Acklam, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

• Airy [Holme]
• Aislaby
• Arnodestorp
• Baldebi
• Barnaby
• Barwick
• Battersby
• Bergolbi
• Berguluesbi
• Blaten [Carr]
• Borrowby
• Breck
• Brotton
• Caldenesche

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Acklam 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.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Acklam.

Listed Buildings Near Acklam

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Acklam. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Acklam Hall - 0.51 km

Grade II

• Avenue Methodist Church - 1.0 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Acklam

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Acklam:

• Fishpond 550m east of Acklam Park - 0.33 km

Acklam Today

Today Acklam lies within the administrative area of Middlesbrough, and the settlement recorded a population of 6,027 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Acklam on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Stainsby Hall - 2.8 km SW
• Thornaby - 3.0 km W
• Stainton - 3.0 km S
• Tollesby - 3.2 km E
• Marton in Cleveland - 3.6 km SE
• Hemlington - 3.6 km SE