The settlement of Crambe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Crambe 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 Crambe.

Listed Buildings Near Crambe

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Crambe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Michael - 0.47 km
Kirkham Priory - 1.29 km

Grade II

Pond Farmhouse - 0.38 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.52 km
The School Room - 0.52 km
Oakcliffe Farmhouse - 0.62 km
Railway Signal Box at Kirkham Abbey Station - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Crambe

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Crambe:

Kirkham Priory Augustinian monastery: monastic precinct, three fishponds, and precinct boundary - 1.33 km
Kirkham Bridge - 1.36 km

Crambe Today

Today Crambe lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 71 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 Crambe on Wikipedia .