Breckenbrough in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Breckenbrough, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Yarlestre
- Arden [Hall]
- Asenby
- Bagby
- Baxby
- Bergebi
- Berghebi
- Bernebi
- Boltby
- Carlton [Husthwaite]
- Carlton [Miniott]
- Catton
- Coxwold
- Crakehill
- Crayke
The Meaning of the Name
The name Breckenbrough is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place. 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 stronghold’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Breckenbrough.
Listed Buildings Near Breckenbrough
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Breckenbrough. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- West Lodge Gateway to Thornton Stud With Flanking Walls, Gate, Railings and End Piers - 1.25 km
- West Lodge to Thornton Stud - 1.3 km
Grade II
Breckenbrough Today
Today Breckenbrough lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 140 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 Newsham with Breckenbrough on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Sand Hutton - 1.0 km S
- Kirby Wiske - 1.4 km NW
- Newsham - 1.4 km NW
- Carlton Miniott - 2.2 km SE
- Holme - 3.2 km W
- Pickhill - 4.0 km W
Heritage Around Breckenbrough
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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Reeves · 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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