Dic appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Dic 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 Dic.

Listed Buildings Near Dic

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

Grade II

Cross Stump Immediately South of Church of St Mary - 0.22 km
48, the Village - 0.22 km
Station House - 0.79 km

Dic Today

Today Dic lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,348 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 Haxby on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Diche - 0.0 km N
Haxby - 0.0 km N
Wigginton - 1.0 km W
Towthorpe - 2.0 km E
Earswick - 2.2 km SE
Huntington - 2.2 km SE

Heritage Around Dic

Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.

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Dic in the Domesday Book (1086)