The settlement of Ampleforth is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Maneshou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ampleforth is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Ampleforth

Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Ampleforth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

The Abbey Church - 1.25 km

Grade II

Number 1 Foxglove Cottages - 0.33 km
The Manor House - 0.33 km
Stable Cottage - 0.34 km
Daleside - 0.34 km
Church of Saint Hilda - 0.35 km
Marian House - 0.45 km
Maynards - 0.57 km
Ash Ling - 0.58 km
Cross House - 0.59 km
Ford End House - 0.67 km
The Cottage - 0.68 km
West End Cottage - 0.69 km
Fern Villa - 0.7 km
Watergate Farmhouse - 0.82 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Ampleforth

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Ampleforth:

Dropping Gill round cairns - 1.3 km
Studford Ring - 1.46 km

Ampleforth Today

Today Ampleforth lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,238 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 Ampleforth on Wikipedia .