Adwick le Street in the Domesday Book (1086)
Adwick le Street is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
- Bolton [upon Dearne]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Adwick le Street is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Adwick le Street.
Listed Buildings Near Adwick le Street
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Adwick le Street. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Laurence - 0.52 km
Grade II
- Cholera Memorial Against East Wall of Chancel to Church of St Laurence - 0.51 km
- Remains of Cross Approximately 5 Metres to South of Porch to Church of St Laurence - 0.52 km
- Mill Building Attached to Mill House and Tail Rail Tunnel Arch Beneath Mill House - 0.65 km
- Miners’ Welfare Institute - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Adwick le Street
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Adwick le Street:
Adwick le Street Today
Today Adwick le Street lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 15,911 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 Adwick le Street on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Adwick [le Street]
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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · 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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