Carnaby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Carnaby is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burton
- Binnington
- Boythorpe
- Burton [Agnes]
- Butterwick
- Fornetorp
- Ganton
- Gransmoor
- Haisthorpe
- Harpham
- Kilham
- Langtoft
- Lowthorpe
- Octon
- Rudston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Carnaby 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 Carnaby.
Listed Buildings Near Carnaby
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Carnaby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St John the Baptist - 0.19 km
Grade II
- Hill Farmhouse - 0.06 km
- Carnaby House - 0.21 km
- Cart Sheds, Pigeoncote and Stables to Carnaby House - 0.22 km
- The Pigeoncote to Bessingby Hall - 1.25 km
- Carnaby Temple - 1.27 km
Carnaby Today
Today Carnaby lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 356 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 Carnaby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Bessingby - 1.0 km E
- Haisthorpe - 2.2 km SW
- Boynton - 2.2 km NW
- Boynton Hall - 2.2 km NW
- Hilderthorpe - 3.0 km E
- Wilsthorpe - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Carnaby
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
© JThomas · 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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