Crachetorp is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Hessle in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Crachetorp at 10 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Crachetorp supported a recorded population of 18 villagers, 2 smallholders, 5 slaves, working 12 ploughs between them.

Something went badly wrong here between the two surveys. Before 1066, Crachetorp was worth 12 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 9 shillings – a fall of 25%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

Resources Recorded at Crachetorp (1086)

Meadow: 2 ploughs
Woodland: 1000 pigs

Other Settlements in Hessle

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Crachetorp 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 Crachetorp.

Listed Buildings Near Crachetorp

Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Crachetorp. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of All Saints - 0.31 km

Grade II

North Lodge - 0.28 km
11 and 13, the Square - 0.29 km
9, Northgate - 0.33 km
7, Northgate - 0.33 km
36, Northgate - 0.33 km
26, the Weir - 0.43 km
24, the Weir - 0.43 km
16-22, the Weir - 0.44 km
Mortuary Chapel in Hessle Cemetery - 0.46 km
Woodlands Lodge - 1.16 km
95, Ferriby Road - 1.23 km

Crachetorp Today

Today Crachetorp lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 15,486 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 Hessle on Wikipedia .