Austerfield appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Austerfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Austerfield

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Austerfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Helena - 0.49 km

Grade II

The Farmhouse - 0.53 km
The Manor House - 0.66 km

Austerfield Today

Today Austerfield lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 551 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 Austerfield on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Littleworth - 5.6 km NW
Stancil - 6.1 km W
Auckley - 7.1 km N
Auckley - 7.1 km N
Dadsley - 7.3 km W
Branton - 8.9 km NW

Heritage Around Austerfield

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.

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Austerfield in the Domesday Book (1086)