Cleaving Grange in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Cleaving Grange, entered under the hundred of Weighton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Weighton
- Easthorpe
- Goodmanham
- Harswell
- Holme [upon Spalding Moor]
- Houghton
- Kipling Cotes
- Londesborough
- Sancton
- Shipton[thorpe]
- Torp
- Torpi
- Towthorpe
- [Bishop] Burton
- [Market] Weighton
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Cleaving Grange 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 Cleaving Grange.
Scheduled Monuments Near Cleaving Grange
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Cleaving Grange:
- Cleaving Hall moated site - 0.56 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Londesborough - 1.4 km SE
- Nunburnholme - 1.4 km NW
- Burnby - 2.0 km W
- Thorpe le Street - 2.8 km SW
- Torp - 2.8 km SW
- Torpi - 2.8 km SW
Heritage Around Cleaving [Grange]
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.
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Allison · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger Gilbertson · 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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