Danthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Danthorpe, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Danthorpe at 2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Danthorpe supported a recorded population of 9 smallholders, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Danthorpe’s value at 15 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

The survey lists 2 manors at Danthorpe 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 Danthorpe (1086)

• Mills: 1 mill (valued at 15d)
• Pigs: 11
• Sheep: 83
• Meadow: 26.5 None
• Woodland: 31 None

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

• Aldbrough
• Benningholme [Hall]
• Bewick [Hall]
• Bilton
• Burton [Constable]
• Burton [Pidsea]
• Conis[ton]
• Dowthorpe [Hall]
• Drypool
• Ellerby
• Elstronwick
• Eske
• Etherdwick
• Fitling

The Meaning of the Name

The name Danthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.

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 Danthorpe.

Listed Buildings Near Danthorpe

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Danthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Danthorpe Hall - 0.3 km
• Church of St Lawrence - 1.07 km
• Boundary Wall to the Paddocks - 1.13 km

Danthorpe Today

Today Danthorpe lies within the administrative area of Elstronwick.

Read more about modern Danthorpe on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Elstronwick - 1.0 km W
• Burton Pidsea - 1.4 km SE
• Owstwick - 2.0 km E
• Fitling - 2.2 km NE
• Fostun - 2.8 km NW
• Fostune - 2.8 km NW