East Cottingwith in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of East Cottingwith, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Cave
- Aughton
- Drewton
- Ellerton
- Everthorpe
- Foggathorpe
- Gribthorpe
- Hotham
- Laytham
- Melbourne
- Seaton [Ross]
- Thornton
- Yokefleet [Grange]
- [High and Low] Hunsley
- [Kettle]thorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name East Cottingwith is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word viðr, a wood. 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 wood’.
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 Cottingwith.
Listed Buildings Near East Cottingwith
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of East Cottingwith. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Methodist Chapel - 0.2 km
- Sycamore House - 0.22 km
- The Elms - 0.24 km
- House 40 Metres North of the Old Ship Inn - 0.25 km
- The Old Ship Inn - 0.25 km
- House 30 Metres to North of Church of St Mary - 0.26 km
- Church of St Mary - 0.27 km
- School House - 0.29 km
- Hall Garth - 0.3 km
- Pocklington Canal Cottingwith Lock - 0.58 km
- North Hills Drawbridge, River Derwent - 0.81 km
- Garden Cottage - 1.22 km
- West Cottingwith Hall - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near East Cottingwith
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of East Cottingwith:
East Cottingwith Today
Today East Cottingwith lies within the administrative area of Cottingwith, and the settlement recorded a population of 349 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern East Cottingwith on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- West Cottingwith - 1.4 km SW
- Thorganby - 2.2 km SW
- Chetelestorp - 2.2 km NE
- Wheldrake - 2.8 km NW
- Ellerton - 3.0 km S
- Aughton - 4.0 km S
Heritage Around [East] Cottingwith
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.
© Simon Huguet · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Glyn Drury · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Ian S · 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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