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Cheldis in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Craven COUNTY: Yorkshire

Cheldis appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Cheldis is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Cheldis.

Listed Buildings Near Cheldis

Historic England records 32 listed buildings within about a mile of Cheldis. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

…and 8 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Cheldis

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Cheldis:

Cheldis Today

Today Cheldis lies within the administrative area of Sutton, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,714 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Sutton-in-Craven on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Heritage Around Cheldis

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.

Ruined barn, Lothersdale Road, near Glusburn, Yorkshire
Ruined barn, Lothersdale Road, near Glusburn, Yorkshire (2006)
© Dr Neil Clifton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ruined hut
Ruined hut (2008)
© John Illingworth · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
War Memorial
War Memorial (2008)
© 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

53.8965°N, -1.9924°W · Craven hundred, Yorkshire

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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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