Appletreewick in the Domesday Book (1086)
Appletreewick is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Craven
- Addingham
- Airton
- Anley
- Arncliffe
- Arnford
- Barnoldswick
- Bashall [Eaves]
- Battersby [Barn]
- Beamsley
- Birkby [Hall]
- Bogeuurde
- Bolton [Abbey]
- Bolton [by Bowland]
- Bordley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Appletreewick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Appletreewick.
Listed Buildings Near Appletreewick
Historic England records 20 listed buildings within about a mile of Appletreewick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- High Hall - 0.42 km
Grade II
- Laburnam Farmhouse - 0.37 km
- Church of St John the Baptist - 0.39 km
- Craven Cottage Hillside Cottage Hilltop Cottage - 0.4 km
- Barn to East of High Hall - 0.41 km
- Smithy Cottage - 0.42 km
- Prospect House - 0.43 km
- Fell Cottage - 0.43 km
- The Old Post Office - 0.45 km
- Glaholm - 0.45 km
- Mock Beggar Hall - 0.46 km
- Appletree House - 0.47 km
- Low Hall Farmhouse - 0.75 km
- Barn to North East of Lowfold Farmhouse - 0.75 km
- Barn 20 Metres to South of Lowfold Farmhouse - 0.77 km
- Great Barn to West of Low Hall - 0.78 km
- Barn Approximately 30 Metres to South West of Low Hall - 0.8 km
- Lane House Farmhouse - 1.01 km
- Methodist Chapel With Cottage - 1.21 km
- Fold House Farmhouse - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Appletreewick
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Appletreewick:
Appletreewick Today
Today Appletreewick lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 207 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 Appletreewick on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Appletreewick
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.
© Dr Neil Clifton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Neil Clifton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave and Carolyn Sawyer · 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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