Asenby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Yarlestre

The Meaning of the Name

The name Asenby 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 Asenby.

Listed Buildings Near Asenby

Historic England records 30 listed buildings within about a mile of Asenby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Columba - 0.67 km

Grade II

Barn 30 Metres to North of Asenby Hall - 0.25 km
Asenby Hall, Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers - 0.26 km
Hillside - 0.26 km
Crab Manor - 0.27 km
Farm Cottage and Guy Reed Farms Estate Office - 0.31 km
Highfield House - 0.41 km
Roecliffe House - 0.52 km
Medieval Cross Base Outside Post Office - 0.64 km
Wesleyan Chapel - 0.65 km
The Old School to North of Church in Churchyard - 0.69 km
The Old Tolbooth - 0.7 km
Walkers Ground - 0.73 km
The Mount - 0.75 km
Ye Old Golden Lion Cottage - 0.76 km
The Old Post House - 0.76 km
Duart and House to Right - 0.77 km
Jasmine Cottage - 0.77 km
Obelisk in Grounds, Approximately 450 Metres South of House - 0.78 km
Hall Farmhouse - 0.79 km
Dovecote 35 Metres East of Hall Farmhouse - 0.81 km
The Old Vicarage - 0.84 km
Surround to Fish Pond With Islands Approximately 300 Metres South of House - 0.86 km
Topcliffe Mill - 0.9 km

…and 6 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Asenby

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

Asenby Today

Today Asenby lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 321 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 Asenby on Wikipedia .