Camblesforth in the Domesday Book (1086)
Camblesforth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Barkston
- Barkston
- Barlow
- Birkin
- Bramham
- Brayton
- Burton [Hall]
- Carlton
- Clifford
- Drax
- Fairburn
- Grimston [Grange]
- Hambleton
- Hazelwood [Castle]
- Hunchilhuse
The Meaning of the Name
The name Camblesforth is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Camblesforth.
Listed Buildings Near Camblesforth
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Camblesforth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Camblesforth Hall - 0.34 km
Grade II
Camblesforth Today
Today Camblesforth lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,560 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 Camblesforth on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Barlow - 2.0 km N
- Carlton - 2.0 km S
- Drax - 3.0 km E
- Snaith - 4.0 km S
- Hemingbrough - 5.0 km NE
- Barmby on the Marsh - 5.4 km E
Heritage Around Camblesforth
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.
© Gordon Kneale Brooke · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Kneale Brooke · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Glyn Drury · 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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