The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bagby, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Yarlestre

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bagby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.

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 Bagby.

Listed Buildings Near Bagby

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Bagby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

East Farmhouse - 0.13 km
Bagby Hall - 0.2 km
Smithy Farmhouse and Former Smithy Adjoining - 0.29 km
Church of St Mary - 0.31 km
Split Farthing Hall - 0.49 km
Balk Mill - 0.95 km
Mill House Park House (Including Flat) - 0.99 km
Caravan Park Shop at York House (Caravan Park) - 1.0 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Bagby

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

Medieval moated grange 160m south east of The Grange - 1.16 km

Bagby Today

Today Bagby lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 495 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 Bagby on Wikipedia .