Crooksby Barn in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Crooksby Barn, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

• Achebi
• Agglethorpe
• Ainderby [Mires]
• Ainderby [Quernhow]
• Aiskew
• Aldbrough
• Allerthorpe [Hall]
• Ascam
• Ascham
• Asebi
• Aske [Hall]
• Askrigg
• Aysgarth
• Baldersby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Crooksby Barn is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

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

Listed Buildings Near Crooksby Barn

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

Grade II

• Swinacote - 0.83 km
• Hargarth Cottage - 0.99 km
• Town Head Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to South-west - 1.0 km
• Brown’s House - 1.02 km
• Brook House Farmhouse - 1.12 km
• Bobo’s Cottage - 1.12 km
• Westbrook House - 1.14 km
• Littleburn - 1.18 km
• Littleburn Bridge - 1.21 km
• Millscar House and Railings With Gate Piers and Gate - 1.23 km
• Pinfold - 1.27 km
• Street Head Inn - 1.3 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Thoralby - 2.2 km NE
• West Burton - 3.2 km E
• Thornton Rust - 3.2 km N
• Eshingtons - 3.6 km NE
• Aysgarth - 3.6 km NE
• Carperby - 4.5 km NE