Eldwick in the Domesday Book (1086)

Eldwick is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Skyrack

• Adel
• Allerton [Bywater]
• Alwoodley
• Arthington
• Austhorpe
• Baildon
• Bardsey
• Barwick [in Elmet]
• Bichertun
• Bicherun
• Bingley
• Birkby [Hill]
• Bramhope
• Burden [Head]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Eldwick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Eldwick.

Listed Buildings Near Eldwick

Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Eldwick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Eldwick War Memorial - 0.07 km
• 1-5, Eldwick Beck - 0.11 km
• Spring Farmhouse - 0.13 km
• Cropper Fold Farm Barn - 0.45 km
• Cragg Wood Farmhouse - 0.48 km
• Moorland Grange Farmhouse - 0.71 km
• Enclosed Garden Wall and Gatepiers Attached to South Front of Eldwick Hall - 0.74 km
• Eldwick Hall - 0.75 km
• Gate Piers and Flanking Walls Approximately 15 Metres East of Eldwick Hall - 0.76 km
• Low House and Attached Barn - 1.02 km
• Toils Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 1.1 km
• Attached Barn Knapley Ing Cottage Knapley Ing Farmhouse - 1.16 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Eldwick

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 23 lie within roughly a mile of Eldwick:

• Cup-marked rock west of confluence of Lodepit Beck and Glovershaw Beck - 0.48 km
• Cup and groove-marked rock on east edge of Glovershaw quarry - 0.58 km
• Carved rock near north east corner of Glovershaw quarry - 0.58 km
• Cup-marked rock on slight bank north east of Glovershaw quarry - 0.58 km
• Small carved rock in path east of Glovershaw quarry - 0.6 km
• Small cup-marked rock 30m east of Glovershaw quarry - 0.61 km
• Boulder with prehistoric rock art at Glovershaw Farm - 0.62 km
• Southernmost of two cairns east of Glovershaw quarry - 0.66 km
• Northernmost of two cairns east of Glovershaw quarry, including adjacent cup-marked rock - 0.69 km
• Roadblock, Bracken Hall Green, Baildon Moor - 0.75 km

…and 13 more.

Eldwick Today

Today Eldwick lies within the administrative area of Bingley.

Read more about modern Eldwick on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Bingley - 2.2 km SW
• Micklethwaite - 2.2 km NW
• Marley - 3.0 km W
• Baildon - 3.2 km E
• Cottingley - 3.2 km S
• Halton - 3.6 km SW