Bardsea appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Bardsea is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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

Listed Buildings Near Bardsea

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

Grade II

Church of Holy Trinity - 0.48 km
Well House and Cottage - 0.85 km
Bardsea Monument in Grounds of Ulverston Golf Club - 1.07 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Bardsea

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

Concentric stone circle on Birkrigg Common - 1.45 km

Bardsea Today

Today Bardsea lies within the administrative area of Urswick.

Read more about modern Bardsea on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Aldingham - 3.6 km SW
Ulverston - 4.5 km NW
Pennington - 5.0 km NW
Bolton Farm - 5.4 km SW
Stainton - 6.3 km W
Gleaston - 6.4 km SW

Heritage Around Bardsea

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.

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.

Bardsea in the Domesday Book (1086)