Cadeby is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Cadeby 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 Cadeby.

Listed Buildings Near Cadeby

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Cadeby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Barn Approximately 40 Metres to Rear of Cadeby Inn - 0.03 km
Church of St John - 0.14 km
White House Farmhouse - 0.25 km
West Portal - 1.02 km
Conisbrough Tunnel East Portal - 1.03 km
Milepost in Pavement to Front of Number 10 - 1.26 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Cadeby

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Cadeby:

Wildthorpe medieval settlement 680m south of Leylands Farm - 0.89 km
Icehouse 720m south east of Bath House Farm - 1.26 km
Romano-British enclosure and earthworks in Pot Ridings Wood - 1.29 km
Conisbrough Castle - 1.58 km

Cadeby Today

Today Cadeby lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 177 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 Cadeby on Wikipedia .