Crayke in the Domesday Book (1086)

Crayke appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Crayke at 12 carucates of taxable land.

The survey lists 2 manors at Crayke under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Crayke (1086)

• Woodland: 2 * 2 None

Other Settlements in Yarlestre

• Arden [Hall]
• Asenby
• Bagby
• Baxby
• Bergebi
• Berghebi
• Bernebi
• Boltby
• Breckenbrough
• Carlton [Husthwaite]
• Carlton [Miniott]
• Catton
• Coxwold
• Crakehill

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Crayke 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 Crayke.

Listed Buildings Near Crayke

Historic England records 26 listed buildings within about a mile of Crayke. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Ivy Cottage and the Old Cottage - 0.36 km
• Ivy Farmhouse - 0.37 km
• Numbers 1 and 2 Priest Cottages - 0.38 km
• Solway Cottage - 0.38 km
• Rose Cottage - 0.38 km
• The Homestead - 0.44 km
• Saddle Stones - 0.45 km
• The Little Homestead - 0.46 km
• Tudor Cottage - 0.47 km
• Weston Cottage - 0.47 km
• Sparling House and Hathaway Cottage - 0.47 km
• Danetree - 0.49 km
• April Cottage - 0.49 km
• Mrs Wellesley’s Cottage - 0.5 km
• Crayke Cottage - 0.51 km
• Gelder Cottage and Plum Tree Cottage - 0.52 km
• Bishops Cottage - 0.53 km
• White House - 0.54 km
• Crayke Hall - 0.54 km
• Church Farm - 0.55 km
• Town End Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Building to South - 0.55 km
• Pinfold Opposite Town End Farm - 0.58 km
• Church of St Cuthbert - 0.59 km
• The Old Rectory - 0.64 km

…and 2 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Crayke

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Crayke:

• Crayke Castle: a motte and bailey and later stone castle of the bishops of Durham, incorporating part of an Anglo-Saxon monastic cemetery - 0.7 km

Crayke Today

Today Crayke lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 381 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 Crayke on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Brandsby - 3.2 km E
• Stillington - 3.6 km SE
• Easingwold - 4.1 km W
• Inglethwaite - 4.1 km W
• Marton in the Forest - 4.5 km SE
• Iretone - 4.5 km NE