Cranswick in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Cranswick, entered under the hundred of Driffield in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Driffield

• Bainton
• Eastburn
• Hutton [Cranswick]
• Kelleythorpe
• Neswick [Hall]
• Rotsea
• Skerne
• Southburn
• Tibthorpe
• Torp
• [Great] Driffield
• [Great] Kendale
• [Kirk]burn
• [Little] Driffield

The Meaning of the Name

The name Cranswick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Cranswick.

Listed Buildings Near Cranswick

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Cranswick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of St Peter - 0.9 km

Grade II

• Sunnyside - 0.21 km
• War Memorial on Cranswick Green - 0.25 km
• Holding Sheds,now Known As Cranswick Garage - 0.32 km
• Station House - 0.35 km
• 14 (A), Station Road - 0.51 km
• Pit Top Farmhouse and Walls Adjoining - 0.61 km
• Windmill to Pit Top Farm - 0.66 km

Cranswick Today

Today Cranswick lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,244 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 Hutton Cranswick on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Hutton Cranswick - 1.0 km N
• Old Sunderlandwick - 2.2 km NW
• Watton - 3.0 km S
• Skerne - 3.6 km NE
• Rotsea - 4.1 km E
• Beswick - 4.1 km S