Barnby Dun in the Domesday Book (1086)
Barnby Dun appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
- Bolton [upon Dearne]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Barnby Dun 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 Barnby Dun.
Listed Buildings Near Barnby Dun
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Barnby Dun. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Peter and St Paul - 0.32 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Barnby Dun
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Barnby Dun:
Barnby Dun Today
Today Barnby Dun lies within the administrative area of Barnby Dun with Kirk Sandall.
Read more about modern Barnby Dun on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Kirk Sandall - 1.0 km S
- Kirk Bramwith - 2.2 km NE
- South Bramwith - 2.2 km NE
- Long Sandall - 3.2 km S
- Edenthorpe - 3.2 km S
- Stainforth - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Barnby [Dun]
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.
© Dave Bevis · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Bevis · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · 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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