East and West Barnby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of East and West Barnby, 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 East and West Barnby 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 East and West Barnby.
Listed Buildings Near East and West Barnby
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of East and West Barnby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Ferndale Farmhouse - 0.29 km
- Barn and Byre to North-east of Ferndale Farmhouse - 0.32 km
- Lowlands Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.45 km
- Outbuildings to South of High Farmhouse - 0.58 km
- High Farmhouse and Attached Stable - 0.6 km
- Green Hill Farmhouse and Attached Barn and Byre - 0.72 km
- Low Broom House Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.9 km
- High Farmhouse With Attached Barn and Byre - 1.18 km
- Broom House Farmhouse - 1.2 km
Scheduled Monuments Near East and West Barnby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of East and West Barnby:
East and West Barnby Today
Today East and West Barnby lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 71 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 Barnby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Mickleby - 1.0 km W
- Ugthorpe - 2.2 km SW
- Mulgrave Castle - 2.2 km SE
- Goldsborough - 2.8 km NE
- Hutton Mulgrave - 2.8 km SE
- Ellerby - 2.8 km NW
Heritage Around [East and West] Barnby
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.
© Stephen Horncastle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Boaden · 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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