Carthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
Carthorpe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Carthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
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 Carthorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Carthorpe
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Carthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Borrowdale House - 0.35 km
- Manor House - 0.43 km
- East Lodge Farmhouse - 1.11 km
- Farmbuildings to East East Lodge Farm - 1.13 km
- Camp Hill House - 1.14 km
- Ice House South of Camp Hill House - 1.3 km
Carthorpe Today
Today Carthorpe lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 258 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 Carthorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Normanebi - 0.0 km N
- Burneston - 1.0 km N
- Theakston - 2.0 km N
- Kirklington - 2.2 km SE
- Yarnwick - 2.2 km SE
- Low Swainby - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Carthorpe
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.
© Chris Heaton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · 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.
Location
54.2461°N, -1.5319°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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