The settlement of Bewick Hall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bewick Hall is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Bewick Hall

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Bewick Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of Saint Bartholomew - 1.1 km

Grade II

Bewick Hall - 0.37 km
George and Dragon Public House - 1.03 km
16, Cross Street - 1.05 km
36, Church Street - 1.12 km
Aldborough House - 1.25 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Bewick Hall

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

Bewick Hall moated site - 0.33 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Aldbrough - 1.4 km SE
Etherdwick - 2.0 km S
West Carlton - 2.2 km SW
Tansterne - 2.2 km SW
Fosham - 3.2 km W
Little Cowden - 3.2 km N

Heritage Around Bewick [Hall]

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.

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.

Bewick Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)