Bossall appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Bossall at 5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Bossall supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 7 smallholders, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey records Bossall’s value at 6 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Bossall (1086)

Sheep: 40
Horses (cobs): 1
Meadow: 4 * 2 furlongs
Woodland: 3 * 2 furlongs

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Bossall is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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

Listed Buildings Near Bossall

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Bossall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I