Billingley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Billingley, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Bolton [upon Dearne]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Billingley 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 Billingley.
Listed Buildings Near Billingley
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Billingley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Poplar Farmhouse - 0.35 km
- Billingley Hall - 0.36 km
- Manor House - 0.39 km
Billingley Today
Today Billingley lies within the administrative area of Barnsley, and the settlement recorded a population of 193 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 Billingley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Little Houghton - 1.4 km NW
- Darfield - 2.0 km W
- Great Houghton - 2.0 km N
- Thurnscoe - 2.2 km NE
- Bolton upon Dearne - 2.8 km SE
- Goldthorpe - 3.0 km E
Heritage Around Billingley
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.
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Wilkinson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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