Allerton Bywater in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Allerton Bywater, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Skyrack
- Adel
- Alwoodley
- Arthington
- Austhorpe
- Baildon
- Bardsey
- Barwick [in Elmet]
- Bichertun
- Bicherun
- Bingley
- Birkby [Hill]
- Bramhope
- Burden [Head]
- Burley [in Wharfedale]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Allerton Bywater is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, 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’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Allerton Bywater.
Listed Buildings Near Allerton Bywater
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Allerton Bywater. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Milepost at Se 427 282 - 1.28 km
Allerton Bywater Today
Today Allerton Bywater lies within the administrative area of Leeds, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,368 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 Allerton Bywater on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Methley - 2.0 km W
- Ledston - 2.2 km NE
- Newton Wallis - 3.0 km E
- Kippax - 3.0 km N
- Glass Houghton - 3.6 km SE
- Wheldale - 4.1 km E
Heritage Around Allerton [Bywater]
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.
© David Pickersgill · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Johnston-Knight · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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