Bare in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bare, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

• Aighton
• Aldcliffe
• Aldingham
• Arkholme
• Aschebi
• Ashton [Hall]
• Ashton [on Ribble]
• Austwick
• Barbon
• Bardsea
• Barnoldswick
• Barton
• Beetham
• Bispham

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Bare 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 Bare.

Listed Buildings Near Bare

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

Grade II

• Lodge to Craig Convalescent Home For Children - 0.54 km
• Craig Convalescent Home For Children - 0.57 km
• Pair of Gate Piers East of Bare Hall - 0.62 km
• Bare Hall - 0.64 km
• Lancaster Canal Blind Lane Bridge (Number 115) - 1.2 km
• Lancaster Canal Rakes Head Bridge (Number 116) - 1.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Bare

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

• Torrisholme bowl barrow - 1.28 km

Bare Today

Today Bare lies within the administrative area of Morecambe, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,067 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Bare on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Slyne - 2.0 km E
• Torisholme - 2.0 km S
• Poulton Hall - 2.2 km SW
• Skerton - 2.8 km SE
• Newsham - 3.2 km E
• Bolton le Sands - 3.6 km NE