Brandsby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Brandsby is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Bulford
- Aldwark
- Alne
- Barnby [House]
- Barton [le Willows]
- Beningbrough
- Bossall
- Brafferton
- Bulmer
- Buttercrambe
- Carlton [Farm]
- Claxton
- Coneysthorpe
- Corburn
- Cornbrough [House]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Brandsby 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 Brandsby.
Listed Buildings Near Brandsby
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Brandsby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Brandsby Hall - 0.4 km
- Church of All Saints - 0.52 km
- The Old Rectory - 0.61 km
Grade II
- Brandsby Hall Stables - 0.44 km
- Gateway to Brandsby Hall, Approximately 100 Metres South East of Church - 0.52 km
- Spellar Park - 0.52 km
- Icehouse Approximately 100 Metres North East of Brandsby Hall Stables - 0.53 km
- Stable Block Approximately 10 Metres to North of the Old Rectory - 0.64 km
- Mill Hill - 0.98 km
- Mile Post Approximately 100 Metres South of Walter End Farm - 1.0 km
- Farmbuilding and Screen Wall Attached to Seaves Farmhouse - 1.04 km
- Seaves Farmhouse and Seaves Cottage - 1.04 km
- Mile Post Approximately 100 Metres East of Junction With Yearsley Road - 1.26 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Brandsby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Brandsby:
Brandsby Today
Today Brandsby lies within the administrative area of Brandsby-cum-Stearsby, and the settlement recorded a population of 234 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Brandsby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Brandsby
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.
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© Ian S · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Martin Dawes · 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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