Barmby on the Marsh in the Domesday Book (1086)
Barmby on the Marsh appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Howden
- Asselby
- Babthorpe
- Barlby
- Barnhill [Hall]
- Belby [House]
- Bowthorpe
- Brackenholme
- Burland [House]
- Cavil
- Cliffe
- Cotness [Hall]
- Eastrington
- Hagthorpe
- Hemingbrough
The Meaning of the Name
The name Barmby on the Marsh 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 Barmby on the Marsh.
Listed Buildings Near Barmby on the Marsh
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Barmby on the Marsh. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- East End Farmhouse - 0.47 km
- Dunstall House - 0.56 km
- National School - 0.59 km
- Church of St Helen - 0.59 km
- Gravestone Approximately 25 Metres North of North Porch of Church of St Helen - 0.59 km
- Rosemount - 0.63 km
- Hawthorne House - 0.65 km
- Fox Farmhouse - 0.69 km
- Bankfield Farmhouse - 0.73 km
- South View and Garden Wall Attached to Front of Property - 0.96 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Barmby [on the Marsh]
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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