Babthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
Babthorpe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Howden
- Asselby
- Barlby
- Barmby [on the Marsh]
- Barnhill [Hall]
- Belby [House]
- Bowthorpe
- Brackenholme
- Burland [House]
- Cavil
- Cliffe
- Cotness [Hall]
- Eastrington
- Hagthorpe
- Hemingbrough
The Meaning of the Name
The name Babthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
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 Babthorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Babthorpe
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Babthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Derwent View - 0.81 km
- Stables to Hagthorpe Hall - 0.87 km
- Hagthorpe Hall - 0.9 km
- East End Farmhouse - 1.06 km
- Dunstall House - 1.08 km
- Rosemount - 1.1 km
- Hawthorne House - 1.11 km
- Fox Farmhouse - 1.15 km
- National School - 1.16 km
- Bankfield Farmhouse - 1.16 km
- Gravestone Approximately 25 Metres North of North Porch of Church of St Helen - 1.17 km
- South View and Garden Wall Attached to Front of Property - 1.18 km
- Church of St Helen - 1.19 km
Babthorpe Today
Today Babthorpe lies within the administrative area of Hemingbrough.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Barmby on the Marsh - 1.0 km S
- Brackenholme - 1.4 km NE
- Hagthorpe - 1.4 km NE
- Newsholme - 2.0 km E
- Asselby - 2.2 km SE
- Hemingbrough - 2.2 km NW
Heritage Around Babthorpe
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.
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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