Azerley in the Domesday Book (1086)

Azerley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

• Addlethorpe
• Aismunderby
• Aldfield
• Allerton [Mauleverer]
• Arkendale
• Askwith
• Barrowby [Grange]
• Beckwith [House]
• Besthaim
• Bestham
• Bewerley
• Bilton
• Birstwith
• Bramley [Grange]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Azerley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Azerley

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Azerley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Spring Hall - 1.18 km

Grade II

• Hay Barn Approximately 5 Metres North of Stables at Azerley Park - 0.1 km
• Stables Approximately 70 Metres West of Azerley Chase House - 0.11 km
• Azerley Tower - 1.08 km
• Farm Buildings to North West of Spring Hall - 1.22 km
• Lawnwith Farmhouse - 1.29 km

Azerley Today

Today Azerley lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 389 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 Azerley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Kirkby Malzeard - 2.0 km W
• Grewelthorpe - 2.8 km NW
• Winksley - 3.0 km S
• Laverton - 3.2 km W
• Sutton Grange - 3.2 km E
• Clotherholme - 3.6 km SE