Bishopthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
Bishopthorpe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Ainsty
- Acaster [Malbis]
- Acaster [Selby]
- Acomb
- Appleton [Roebuck]
- Askham [Bryan]
- Askham [Richard]
- Bickerton
- Bilbrough
- Bilton
- Bithen
- Bolton [Percy]
- Catterton
- Colton
- Copmanthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Bishopthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
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 Bishopthorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Bishopthorpe
Historic England records 22 listed buildings within about a mile of Bishopthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Bishopthorpe Palace and Chapel - 0.37 km
Grade II*
- Gatehouse and Walls Adjoining to Bishopthorpe Palace - 0.31 km
- The Stables to Bishopthorpe Palace - 0.36 km
- Middlethorpe Hall - 1.21 km
Grade II
- The Ebor Inn - 0.19 km
- Chestnut Cottage - 0.21 km
- The Cottage - 0.22 km
- The Whitehouse - 0.23 km
- Stables, Wall and Gate-piers to the Whitehouse - 0.24 km
- Priory Corner - 0.26 km
- The Chantry - 0.26 km
- Ruined Church of St Andrew - 0.32 km
- Wall and archway adjoining Bishopthorpe Palace to right - 0.34 km
- War Memorial - 0.34 km
- Sundial Approximately 10 Metres South-east of Bishopthorpe Palace - 0.36 km
- Brewsters Cottage and Brewhouse - 0.38 km
- Church of St Andrew - 0.43 km
- Folly in Grounds of Bishopthorpe Palace - 0.58 km
- Bishopthorpe Garth - 0.68 km
- Bishopthorpe walled kitchen gardens, their associated brick lean-to buildings and canalised stream - 0.7 km
- Garth Cottage and Garth Mews, Gatehouses to Bishopthorpe Garth - 0.71 km
- Dovecote Approximately 50 Metres South East of Middlethorpe Hall - 1.21 km
Bishopthorpe Today
Today Bishopthorpe lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,332 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 Bishopthorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Mulede - 0.0 km N
- Mulehale - 0.0 km N
- Mulhede - 0.0 km N
- Bithen - 1.0 km N
- Middlethorpe - 1.0 km N
- Water Fulford - 1.4 km NE
Heritage Around Bishopthorpe
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.
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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