Barnoldswick 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 name Barnoldswick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Barnoldswick

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Barnoldswick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Lowfields Farmhouse - 1.25 km

Barnoldswick Today

Today Barnoldswick lies within the administrative area of Burton in Lonsdale.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Burton in Lonsdale - 1.4 km NW
Thornton in Lonsdale - 2.2 km NE
High and Low Bentham - 2.8 km SW
Ingleton - 3.2 km E
Cantsfield - 4.1 km W
Ireby - 4.1 km N

Heritage Around Barnoldswick

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.

St Oswald's tower, and tower appeal cut out (2009)
© John S Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

St Oswald's, and Thornton in Lonsdale war memorial (2009)
© John S Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Low Bentham, Tower (2009)
© Alexander P Kapp · 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.

Barnoldswick in the Domesday Book (1086)