Aldborough in the Domesday Book (1086)

Aldborough is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

• Addlethorpe
• Aismunderby
• Aldfield
• Allerton [Mauleverer]
• Arkendale
• Askwith
• Azerley
• Barrowby [Grange]
• Beckwith [House]
• Besthaim
• Bestham
• Bewerley
• Bilton
• Birstwith

The Meaning of the Name

The name Aldborough is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place, while the first element appears to represent the old. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the old stronghold’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Aldborough

Historic England records 73 listed buildings within about a mile of Aldborough. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Andrew - 0.05 km

Grade II

• Sutton Farmhouse - 0.01 km
• The Ship Inn - 0.01 km
• Glebe Cottage - 0.03 km
• Chest tomb of Mark Smithson, at base of Church Tower, to south - 0.05 km
• Memorial Slab Lying to East of Path, Circa 60 Feet to South of South Door - 0.07 km
• Village Cross - 0.09 km
• Darry Cottage and Church View - 0.09 km
• Manor Cottage - 0.09 km
• White House - 0.09 km
• Hazeldene and Railings to Front Gardens - 0.11 km
• The Cottage - 0.11 km
• Gardeners Cottage - 0.11 km
• Aldborough Dairy - 0.11 km
• Manor Farmhouse, Front Wall and Railings - 0.12 km
• Manor Cottage and Flats - 0.12 km
• Building Linking Aldborough Manor and Manor Cottage and Flats - 0.14 km
• Aldborough Manor - 0.16 km
• Rose Cottage - 0.16 km
• Castle House - 0.19 km
• Stocks 6 Feet North of Old Court House - 0.19 km
• Penrose House - 0.19 km
• The Old Court House - 0.2 km
• Stocks House - 0.2 km

…and 49 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Aldborough

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Aldborough:

• Aldborough Cross - 0.1 km
• Aldborough Roman town - 0.11 km
• Stone alignment west of Boroughbridge known as the Devil’s Arrows, including three standing stones and the setting for a fourth - 1.49 km

Aldborough Today

Today Aldborough lies within the administrative area of Boroughbridge.

Read more about modern Aldborough on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Milby - 1.0 km N
• Ellenthorpe Hall - 1.4 km NE
• Langthorpe - 2.2 km NW
• Kirby Hill - 2.2 km NW
• Humburton - 2.8 km NE
• Minskip - 2.8 km SW