The settlement of Beverley is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Sneculfcros in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Sneculfcros

The Meaning of the Name

The name Beverley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Beverley

Historic England records 446 listed buildings within about a mile of Beverley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Highgate House - 0.03 km

Grade II

2, Wednesday Market - 0.02 km
36, Butcher Row - 0.02 km
3,4, Wednesday Market - 0.02 km
22,23, Wednesday Market - 0.02 km
21, Wednesday Market - 0.02 km
1, Wednesday Market - 0.03 km
8, Wednesday Market - 0.04 km
18, Wednesday Market - 0.04 km
6,7, Wednesday Market - 0.04 km
16,17, Wednesday Market - 0.05 km
2,4,6, Well Lane - 0.05 km
1, Highgate - 0.06 km
13, Wednesday Market - 0.06 km
15, Wednesday Market - 0.06 km
2 Highgate and 2A Lord Roberts Road, including associated former privy - 0.06 km
22, Butcher Row - 0.06 km
26,28, Butcher Row - 0.06 km
14, Wednesday Market - 0.06 km
11,11A, Wednesday Market - 0.07 km
2, Railway Street - 0.07 km
2A, Railway Street - 0.07 km
4, Highgate - 0.07 km
11, Highgate - 0.08 km

…and 422 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Beverley

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 5 lie within roughly a mile of Beverley:

Blackfriars (remains of) - 0.28 km
Site of Preceptory of the Holy Trinity (Knights Hospitallers) - 0.31 km
Hall Garth moated site south of Beverley Minster - 0.38 km
Bowl barrow on Westwood Common, 150m north of Blackmill - 1.58 km
Bowl barrow on Westwood Common, 50m north of Blackmill - 1.58 km

Beverley Today

Today Beverley lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 18,014 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 Beverley on Wikipedia .