Ebberston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ebberston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ebberston at 60 carucates of taxable land.
The survey records Ebberston’s value at 0d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
The survey lists 2 manors at Ebberston under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Appleton [le Moors]
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Barton [le Street]
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
The Meaning of the Name
The name Ebberston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, 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’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Ebberston.
Listed Buildings Near Ebberston
Historic England records 26 listed buildings within about a mile of Ebberston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Ebberston Hall - 1.01 km
Grade II*
- Westwood Farmhouse - 0.26 km
- Church of St Mary the Virgin - 0.94 km
- Wall of Cascade Approximately 50 Metres North of Ebberston Hall - 1.06 km
Grade II
- Westwood Granary - 0.23 km
- Westward Barn and The Cow House - 0.25 km
- Beckus - 0.26 km
- Saint Mary’s Mission Room, and railings attached to footbridge to front - 0.26 km
- The Kilns - 0.26 km
- 2 and 4, Chapel Terrace - 0.26 km
- Former malthouse approximately one metre north of The Kilns - 0.27 km
- Chapel House - 0.28 km
- Yew Tree Cottage and Ivy Cottage - 0.3 km
- 46, Main Street - 0.34 km
- Brook Villa - 0.38 km
- Church House - 0.46 km
- 5, Orchard Terrace - 0.49 km
- 4, Orchard Terrace - 0.5 km
- 13 and 15, Main Street - 0.56 km
- The Grapes Inn - 0.61 km
- Crossgate House - 0.62 km
- Cliff House - 0.67 km
- Cross Approximately 14.5 Metres South East of Porch of Church of Saint Mary the Virgin - 0.92 km
- Saint Mary’s Cottage - 0.92 km
…and 2 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Ebberston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Ebberston:
- Medieval settlement immediately south east of Ebberston Hall - 0.82 km
- Churchyard cross, immediately south of St Mary the Virgin’s Church - 0.92 km
- Allerston lime kilns - 1.41 km
Ebberston Today
Today Ebberston lies within the administrative area of Ebberston and Yedingham.
Read more about modern Ebberston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Ebberston
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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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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