Aldbrough in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Aldbrough, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

• Benningholme [Hall]
• Bewick [Hall]
• Bilton
• Burton [Constable]
• Burton [Pidsea]
• Conis[ton]
• Danthorpe
• Dowthorpe [Hall]
• Drypool
• Ellerby
• Elstronwick
• Eske
• Etherdwick
• Fitling

The Meaning of the Name

The name Aldbrough 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 Aldbrough.

Listed Buildings Near Aldbrough

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Aldbrough. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of Saint Bartholomew - 0.31 km

Grade II

• 36, Church Street - 0.29 km
• 16, Cross Street - 0.37 km
• Aldborough House - 0.45 km
• George and Dragon Public House - 0.52 km
• Pigeon House at Crosmere Hill - 1.0 km

Aldbrough Today

Today Aldbrough lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,281 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Aldbrough on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Etherdwick - 1.4 km SW
• Bewick Hall - 1.4 km NW
• Tansterne - 2.2 km SW
• East Newton - 2.2 km SE
• Flinton - 2.8 km SW
• West Carlton - 3.0 km W