Amotherby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Amotherby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Maneshou
- Ampleforth
- Appleton [le Street]
- Beadlam
- Brawby
- Broughton
- Cawton
- Coulton
- Fadmoor
- Fryton
- Gillamoor
- Gilling [East]
- Griff [Farm]
- Grimston
- Harome
The Meaning of the Name
The name Amotherby 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 Amotherby.
Listed Buildings Near Amotherby
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Amotherby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Lime Kiln Farmhouse - 0.32 km
- Church of St Helen - 0.54 km
- Milepost Approximately 60 Metres East of East Street - 0.55 km
- Old Schoolhouse - 0.58 km
- The Old Vicarage - 0.6 km
- Milepost Approximately 1 Metre West of the Stable Range to Station Farm - 0.66 km
- Oak Farmhouse - 1.21 km
Amotherby Today
Today Amotherby lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 363 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 Amotherby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Swinton - 0.0 km N
- Broughton - 1.0 km E
- Appleton le Street - 2.0 km W
- Easthorpe House - 2.8 km SW
- Barton le Street - 3.2 km W
- Hildenley Hall - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Amotherby
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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Grice · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Grice · 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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