Beningbrough in the Domesday Book (1086)

Beningbrough appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

• Aldwark
• Alne
• Barnby [House]
• Barton [le Willows]
• Bossall
• Brafferton
• Brandsby
• Bulmer
• Buttercrambe
• Carlton [Farm]
• Claxton
• Coneysthorpe
• Corburn
• Cornbrough [House]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Beningbrough is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place. 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 stronghold’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Beningbrough

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Beningbrough. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Red House School Chapel - 0.54 km

Grade II

• The Red House - 0.52 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Beningbrough

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

• Moated site 50m north west of Red House - 0.44 km

Beningbrough Today

Today Beningbrough lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 51 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 Beningbrough on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Nun Monkton - 2.0 km W
• Moor Monkton - 2.2 km SW
• Newton upon Ouse - 2.2 km NW
• Toresbi - 2.2 km NW
• Scagglethorpe - 2.8 km SE
• Shipton - 3.2 km E