Crosby Grange in the Domesday Book (1086)

Crosby Grange is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

• Ainderby [Steeple]
• Appleton [Wiske]
• Arncliffe [Hall]
• Birkby
• Borrowby
• Brompton
• Cowesby
• Dale [Town]
• Deighton
• Ellerbeck
• Foxton
• Girsby
• Hawnby
• Hornby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Crosby Grange 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 Crosby Grange.

Listed Buildings Near Crosby Grange

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Crosby Grange. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Brawith Hall - 1.27 km

Grade II

• Crosby Grange - 0.18 km
• Pasture House - 0.43 km
• Stable Block at Brawith Hall to North West of House - 1.24 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Thornton le Moor - 2.0 km W
• Borrowby - 2.2 km NE
• Thornton le Beans - 2.2 km NW
• Thornton le Street - 2.2 km SE
• South Otterington - 3.2 km W
• Knayton - 3.2 km E