Eavestone appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Eavestone 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 Eavestone.

Listed Buildings Near Eavestone

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

Grade II

Hungate Cottage - 0.79 km
Barn Approximately 15 Metres to East of House at Birka Carr - 1.01 km
Mile Post Approximately 150 Metres East of Junction With Sawley Moor Lane - 1.1 km
West Gowbusk Farmhouse - 1.22 km
Gowbusk - 1.28 km

Eavestone Today

Today Eavestone lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 22 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 Eavestone on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Knaresford - 1.4 km NW
Sawley - 2.2 km SE
High Grantley - 2.2 km NE
Aldfield - 4.1 km E
Winksley - 4.2 km NE
Hawcoat - 4.5 km NW

Heritage Around Eavestone

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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Eavestone in the Domesday Book (1086)