Cleasby 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

The Meaning of the Name

The name Cleasby 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 Cleasby.

Listed Buildings Near Cleasby

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Cleasby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

478 and 480, Coniscliffe Road - 0.64 km
House of Mr Scott - 0.68 km
Well Bank House - 0.72 km
Cleasby House - 0.72 km
Tees Bank House - 0.73 km
Church of St Peter - 0.79 km
Cleasby and Stapleton Village Hall - 0.79 km
The Old Vicarage - 0.79 km
Teddington House - 0.82 km
Cleasby Hall - 0.86 km
55 and 57, Low Coniscliffe - 0.87 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Cleasby

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Cleasby:

Coniscliffe Road waterworks - 0.45 km

Cleasby Today

Today Cleasby lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 163 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 Cleasby on Wikipedia .