Easthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
Easthorpe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Weighton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Weighton
- Cleaving [Grange]
- Goodmanham
- Harswell
- Holme [upon Spalding Moor]
- Houghton
- Kipling Cotes
- Londesborough
- Sancton
- Shipton[thorpe]
- Torp
- Torpi
- Towthorpe
- [Bishop] Burton
- [Market] Weighton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Easthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead, while the first element appears to represent the eastern. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the eastern outlying farm’.
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 Easthorpe.
Easthorpe Today
Today Easthorpe lies within the administrative area of Londesborough.
Read more about modern Middlethorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Londesborough - 2.0 km W
- Goodmanham - 2.0 km S
- Kipling Cotes - 2.8 km NE
- Towthorpe - 2.8 km SW
- Cleaving Grange - 3.2 km W
- Shiptonthorpe - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Easthorpe
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.
© Oliver Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Allison · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Glazzard · 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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