Dromonby Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
Dromonby Hall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Dromonby Hall 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 Dromonby Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Dromonby Hall
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Dromonby Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
Grade II*
- Church of St Augustine - 0.61 km
Grade II
- Dromonby Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Dromonby House - 0.42 km
- Kirby House - 0.52 km
- School House - 0.55 km
- Telephone Call Box to South of Church of St Augustine - 0.58 km
- The Cottages Wayside Cottage - 0.58 km
- Church Cottage - 0.58 km
- The Cottages Ivy House - 0.59 km
- Farmbuilding to West of Dromonby Hall Farm - 0.6 km
- The Cottages - 0.6 km
- The Cottages Cleveland House - 0.61 km
- Dernel the Cottages - 0.62 km
- The Vicarage - 0.64 km
- Blue Hall Cottage - 1.25 km
Dromonby Hall Today
Today Dromonby Hall lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 274 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 Kirkby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Blaten Carr - 1.0 km W
- Great Busby - 1.0 km W
- Kirkby - 1.0 km N
- Great Broughton - 1.4 km NE
- Little Busby - 2.2 km SW
- Little Broughton - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Dromonby [Hall]
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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