Ainderby Mires in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ainderby Mires, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

• Achebi
• Agglethorpe
• Ainderby [Quernhow]
• Aiskew
• Aldbrough
• Allerthorpe [Hall]
• Ascam
• Ascham
• Asebi
• Aske [Hall]
• Askrigg
• Aysgarth
• Baldersby
• Barden

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ainderby Mires is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, 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’.

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 Ainderby Mires.

Listed Buildings Near Ainderby Mires

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Ainderby Mires. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Ainderby Myers Manor - 0.29 km
• Bowbridge - 0.81 km
• Barn to North West of the Hall - 0.94 km
• The Hall - 0.95 km
• K6 Telephone Kiosk Near Langthorne Hall - 0.97 km
• Barn and Granary to South of Street House Farmhouse - 1.13 km
• Pavilion to South of Street House Farmhouse - 1.14 km
• Street House Farmhouse - 1.15 km
• Threshing Barn and Attached Outbuilding to North of Street House Farmhouse - 1.16 km
• Holtby Hall - 1.22 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Holtby Hall - 1.0 km E
• Langthorne - 1.0 km S
• Hackforth - 2.2 km NW
• Great Fencote - 3.2 km E
• Little Fencote - 3.2 km E
• Hornby - 3.2 km W