East Harlsey appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name East Harlsey 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 East Harlsey.

Listed Buildings Near East Harlsey

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of East Harlsey. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Oswald - 0.27 km

Grade II

Dovecote, North East of Harlsey Hall - 0.31 km
The Vicarage - 0.37 km
Priory View - 0.4 km
Coulson Villa - 0.4 km

East Harlsey Today

Today East Harlsey lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 266 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 East Harlsey on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Morton Grange - 0.0 km N
West Harlsey - 1.4 km SW
Ingleby Arncliffe - 2.2 km NE
Mount Grace - 2.2 km SE
Foxton - 3.0 km S
Arncliffe Hall - 3.2 km E

Heritage Around [East] Harlsey

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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East Harlsey in the Domesday Book (1086)