Aysgarth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Aysgarth is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word garðr, an enclosure. 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 enclosure’.

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 Aysgarth.

Listed Buildings Near Aysgarth

Historic England records 21 listed buildings within about a mile of Aysgarth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Bear Park - 0.4 km
Church of Saint Andrew - 0.6 km

Grade II

George and Dragon Hotel and Attached Former Coach House and Mounting Block - 0.2 km
The Ferns - 0.25 km
Aysgarth War Memorial - 0.25 km
Stocks - 0.29 km
Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage - 0.4 km
Grotto Approximately 8 Metres to South West of Bear Park - 0.4 km
Yore Bridge - 0.49 km
Cottages Approximately 10 Metres South-west of Yore Mill - 0.5 km
Range Adjoining Yore Mill on North-west - 0.52 km
Yore Mill - 0.53 km
Yore Mill Cottages Approximately 30 Metres North-east of Yore Mill - 0.57 km
White House - 0.58 km
Boundary Stone Approximately 6 Metres North of Tomgill Bridge - 0.95 km
Milestone, Heads Bank, Aysgarth - 1.13 km
West End Farmhouse - 1.22 km
West Lea Cottage - 1.23 km
Cross - 1.25 km
Friends Meeting House - 1.27 km
Quaker Cottages - 1.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Aysgarth

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Aysgarth:

Carperby market cross - 1.25 km

Aysgarth Today

Today Aysgarth lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, 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 Aysgarth on Wikipedia .