Askham Bryan in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Askham Bryan, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Ainsty

• Acaster [Malbis]
• Acaster [Selby]
• Acomb
• Appleton [Roebuck]
• Askham [Richard]
• Bickerton
• Bilbrough
• Bilton
• Bishopthorpe
• Bithen
• Bolton [Percy]
• Catterton
• Colton
• Copmanthorpe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Askham Bryan is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Askham Bryan

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Askham Bryan. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Nicholas - 0.22 km

Grade II

• Askham Bryan War Memorial - 0.24 km
• The Doctor’s House - 0.6 km
• Milestone Approximately 80 Metres West of Askham Fields Lane - 1.21 km

Askham Bryan Today

Today Askham Bryan lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 618 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 Askham Bryan on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Askham Richard - 2.0 km W
• Copmanthorpe - 2.2 km SE
• Bilbrough - 2.8 km SW
• Acomb - 3.6 km NE
• Bithen - 4.0 km E
• Middlethorpe - 4.0 km E