Beeford in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Beeford, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

• Arnestorp
• Arram
• Barmston
• Bewholme
• Brandesburton
• Catfoss [Hall]
• Catwick
• Chenecol
• Chenucol
• Chenuthesholm
• Cleeton
• Dringhoe
• Dunnington
• Goxhill

The Meaning of the Name

The name Beeford is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Beeford

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Beeford. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of St Leonard - 0.31 km

Grade II

• Alton Farmhouse and Barns Adjoining to Right - 0.41 km
• Barns at Town Farm - 0.64 km
• Town Farmhouse - 0.72 km
• Woodhouse Farmhouse - 1.26 km

Beeford Today

Today Beeford lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,093 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 Beeford on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Upton - 2.0 km E
• Foston on the Wolds - 2.2 km NW
• Dringhoe - 3.2 km E
• North Frodingham - 3.2 km W
• Dunnington - 3.6 km SE
• Gembling - 3.6 km NW