Barwick in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Barwick is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
- Caldenesche
The Meaning of the Name
The name Barwick 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 Barwick.
Listed Buildings Near Barwick
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Barwick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Barwick Farmhouse - 0.43 km
- Granary and Cart Shed to North of Barwick Farmhouse - 0.43 km
- Low Barwick Farmhouse - 1.16 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Barwick
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Barwick:
- Barwick medieval village, 50m north east of Barwick Farm - 0.39 km
- Romano-British villa, with associated enclosures and other features, at Condercum Green, Ingleby Barwick - 0.58 km
- Round Hill castle mound and bailey - 1.58 km
Barwick Today
Today Barwick lies within the administrative area of Stockton-on-Tees, and the settlement recorded a population of 23,019 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Ingleby Barwick on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ingleby Hill - 2.2 km SE
- Yarm - 2.8 km SW
- Stainsby Hall - 3.2 km E
- Maltby - 3.2 km E
- Thornaby - 3.6 km NE
- Thornton - 4.1 km E
Heritage Around Barwick
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.
© Michael Graham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Carol Rose · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Carol Rose · 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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