Crakehill in the Domesday Book (1086)
Crakehill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Yarlestre
- Arden [Hall]
- Asenby
- Bagby
- Baxby
- Bergebi
- Berghebi
- Bernebi
- Boltby
- Breckenbrough
- Carlton [Husthwaite]
- Carlton [Miniott]
- Catton
- Coxwold
- Crayke
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Crakehill 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 Crakehill.
Listed Buildings Near Crakehill
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Crakehill. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Cundall Hall Farmhouse - 0.39 km
- Farm Outbuilding Approximately 20 Metres South East of Cundall Hall Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Church of Saint Mary and All Saints - 0.49 km
- Cundall Lodge Farmhouse - 0.59 km
- Farm Buildings to North West of Cundall Lodge Farmhouse - 0.59 km
- Eagle Farmhouse With Left Bay of Eagle Cottage - 0.86 km
- Home Farmhouse - 0.87 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Crakehill
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Crakehill:
Crakehill Today
Today Crakehill lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 25 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 Eldmire with Crakehill on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Cundall - 1.0 km S
- Leckby Palace - 1.4 km NW
- Horebodebi - 2.0 km N
- Horenbodebi - 2.0 km N
- Thornton Bridge - 2.2 km SE
- Norton le Clay - 2.8 km SW
Heritage Around Crakehill
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.
© Richard Law · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · 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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