Aismunderby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Aismunderby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
- Bramley [Grange]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Aismunderby 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 Aismunderby.
Listed Buildings Near Aismunderby
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Aismunderby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Whitcliffe Hall - 0.94 km
- Thorpe Lodge - 1.11 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Markenfield Hall - 1.4 km SW
- Littlethorpe - 2.2 km NE
- Studley Roger - 2.2 km NW
- Bishop Monkton - 2.8 km SE
- Givendale - 3.2 km E
- How Hill - 3.2 km W
Heritage Around Aismunderby
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.
© P Glenwright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Pete burnett · 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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