Eddlethorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Eddlethorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Acklam in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Acklam
- Acklam
- Barthorpe [Grange]
- Bugthorpe
- Burythorpe
- Firby
- Fridaythorpe
- Garrowby [Hall]
- Howsham
- Kirby [Underdale]
- Kirkham
- Leavening
- Leppington
- Menethorpe
- Raisthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Eddlethorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 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 Eddlethorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Eddlethorpe
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Eddlethorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Eddlethorpe Kennels Farm Barn - 0.08 km
- Thornthorpe Manor House - 1.04 km
- Thornthorpe Bridge - 1.17 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Eddlethorpe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Eddlethorpe:
- Hedon Howe tumulus - 0.86 km
- Roman site SW of Kennythorpe - 1.22 km
- A long barrow 120m north of Westow Grange, incorporating part of a medieval field system - 1.46 km
- Medieval moated site 150m south east of Low Hutton Post Office - 1.57 km
Eddlethorpe Today
Today Eddlethorpe lies within the administrative area of Burythorpe.
Read more about modern Eddlethorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Kennythorpe - 1.0 km E
- Thornthorpe - 1.4 km NE
- Low Hutton - 1.4 km NW
- Menethorpe - 1.4 km NW
- Langton - 2.2 km NE
- Sudcniton - 2.2 km SW
Heritage Around Eddlethorpe
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.
© Martin Norman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Church · 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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