Castley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Castley, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The name Castley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Castley.
Listed Buildings Near Castley
Historic England records 17 listed buildings within about a mile of Castley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Wharfedale Viaduct - 0.28 km
- Wharfedale Viaduct - 0.35 km
- Castley Hall and Manor Farmhouse - 0.39 km
- Wagon House at Water Pumping Station - 0.43 km
- Warren Farmhouse - 0.67 km
- Barn with attached stable approximately 10 metres west of Warren Farmhouse - 0.69 km
- Boundary Stone at Ngr 262 461 - 0.69 km
- Crag View and Ivy Cottage - 0.86 km
- 5-10, Arthington Lane - 0.88 km
- Arthington Hall - 0.91 km
- Former Stable Block Approximately 50 Metres East of Arthington Hall - 0.94 km
- Dog Kennel approximately 50 metres south-east of Arthington Hall - 0.97 km
- Ha-ha to east of east drive to Arthington Hall - 1.0 km
- The Grange (Farmhouse) - 1.13 km
- Cold Store Approximately 20 Metres South of ‘The Grange’ - 1.15 km
- Milepost Approximately 120 Metres East of Riffa House - 1.25 km
- Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub - 1.3 km
Castley Today
Today Castley lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 63 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 Castley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Castley
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.
© David Spencer · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · 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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