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

Other Settlements in Acklam

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Leavening is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

The Domesday commissioners of 1086 recorded the place as another Leavening - the spelling has shifted over the nine centuries since, as the name passed from Norman scribes through Middle English into its modern form.

Listed Buildings Near Leavening

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Leavening. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Scheduled Monuments Near Leavening

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 6 lie within roughly a mile of Leavening:

Leavening Today

Today Leavening lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 345 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 Leavening on Wikipedia .