Baxby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Baxby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Yarlestre
- Arden [Hall]
- Asenby
- Bagby
- Bergebi
- Berghebi
- Bernebi
- Boltby
- Breckenbrough
- Carlton [Husthwaite]
- Carlton [Miniott]
- Catton
- Coxwold
- Crakehill
- Crayke
The Meaning of the Name
The name Baxby 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 Baxby.
Listed Buildings Near Baxby
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Baxby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Nicholas - 0.43 km
Grade II
- Wailes chest tomb approximately 2 metres south- east of porch of St Nicholas - 0.44 km
- Baxby Manor - 0.46 km
- Farm building approximately 3 metres north-west of Baxby Manor - 0.47 km
- The White House - 0.47 km
- Black Bull Cottage - 0.5 km
- Rose Cottage - 0.55 km
- Laburnum Cottage - 0.56 km
- Holly Grove, house and attached outbuilding - 0.59 km
- Angram Hall - 0.73 km
- Highthorne - 1.08 km
Baxby Today
Today Baxby lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 392 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 Husthwaite on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thormanby - 2.2 km SW
- Carlton Husthwaite - 2.2 km NW
- Coxwold - 2.8 km NE
- Bernebi - 3.0 km W
- Wildon Grange - 3.0 km N
- Oulston - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Baxby
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.
© Colin Grice · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Buckingham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · 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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