Agglethorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Agglethorpe, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
- Barden
The Meaning of the Name
The name Agglethorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Agglethorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Agglethorpe
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Agglethorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Agglethorpe Hall - 0.18 km
- Range of Farm Buildings Approximately Ten Metres to West of Agglethorpe Hall - 0.18 km
- Brecongill House - 0.5 km
- Farm Building Approximately 10 Metres to North West of Brecongill House - 0.5 km
- Rubbing House - 1.28 km
Agglethorpe Today
Today Agglethorpe lies within the administrative area of Coverham with Agglethorpe.
Read more about modern Agglethorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Agglethorpe
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.
© Chris Heaton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Anthony Harrison · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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.
Location
54.2739°N, -1.8695°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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