Boltby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Boltby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Yarlestre
- Arden [Hall]
- Asenby
- Bagby
- Baxby
- Bergebi
- Berghebi
- Bernebi
- Breckenbrough
- Carlton [Husthwaite]
- Carlton [Miniott]
- Catton
- Coxwold
- Crakehill
- Crayke
The Meaning of the Name
The name Boltby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
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 Boltby.
Listed Buildings Near Boltby
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Boltby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- East Farmhouse - 0.46 km
- Bridge Over Gurtoff Beck - 0.49 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Boltby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 8 lie within roughly a mile of Boltby:
- Round barrow 75m west of High Barn - 1.03 km
- Round barrow 120m north of High Barn - 1.12 km
- Section of the Cleave Dyke system near High Barn - 1.18 km
- Round barrow 200m east of High Barn - 1.27 km
- Section of Cleave Dyke, 1.4km long from Sneck Yate Plantation to east edge of Town’s Pasture Wood including two pit alignments and round barrow - 1.29 km
- Boltby Scar promontory fort and two round barrows - 1.3 km
- Ravensthorpe manor house (site of) - 1.35 km
- Round barrow 520m north of High Barn - 1.41 km
Boltby Today
Today Boltby lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 145 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 Boltby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ravensthorpe Manor - 1.0 km S
- Kirby Knowle - 3.2 km W
- Felixkirk - 3.6 km SW
- Upsall - 4.1 km W
- Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe - 4.1 km S
- Marderby Hall - 4.2 km SW
Heritage Around Boltby
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.
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · 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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