Coulby in the Domesday Book (1086)

Coulby is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

• Acklam
• Airy [Holme]
• Aislaby
• Arnodestorp
• Baldebi
• Barnaby
• Barwick
• Battersby
• Bergolbi
• Berguluesbi
• Blaten [Carr]
• Borrowby
• Breck
• Brotton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Coulby 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 Coulby.

Listed Buildings Near Coulby

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Coulby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Newham Hall Lodge - 1.01 km
• Gate, Gatepiers and Walls at Entrance to Newham Hall - 1.02 km
• Newham Hall, Retaining Wall and Steps - 1.13 km
• Newby Methodist Church - 1.16 km

Coulby Today

Today Coulby lies within the administrative area of Middlesbrough, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,967 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 Coulby Newham on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Newham Hall - 1.0 km E
• Hemlington - 1.0 km N
• Tunstall Farm - 2.2 km SE
• Stainton - 2.2 km NW
• Marton in Cleveland - 2.2 km NE
• Thornton - 3.0 km W