The settlement of Ellerby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ellerby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, 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’.

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 Ellerby.

Listed Buildings Near Ellerby

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Ellerby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Wood Hall Farmhouse - 0.73 km
Wood Hall - 1.1 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Ellerby

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Ellerby:

Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite at Old Ellerby, 600m south of Ellerby Grange - 0.39 km

Ellerby Today

Today Ellerby lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 336 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 Ellerby on Wikipedia .