The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bellerby, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bellerby 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 Bellerby.

Listed Buildings Near Bellerby

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Bellerby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Old Hall - 0.44 km

Grade II

Manor House - 0.24 km
Church of St John - 0.28 km
Corner Cottage - 0.31 km
The Lilacs - 0.32 km
Old Brook House - 0.35 km
East Grange - 0.42 km
Kirkbank - 0.44 km
Boar House - 0.44 km
House of Mrs Kane and Windrush - 0.68 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Bellerby

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Bellerby:

Medieval settlement and prehistoric hut circle settlement 870m north east of Washfold Farm - 1.17 km

Bellerby Today

Today Bellerby lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 370 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 Bellerby on Wikipedia .