Ellerby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Ellerby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
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 14 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
- Stable-coach House and Byre to West and South of Ellerby Grange - 0.23 km
- Ellerby Grange and Granary - 0.25 km
- Bank Foot - 0.27 km
- Barn and Gin-gang to South-east of Ellerby Grange - 0.28 km
- Ellerby Hotel - 0.33 km
- The Cottage - 0.36 km
- Ellerby Lodge - 0.36 km
- Low Farmhouse - 0.39 km
- Farm Buildings to North of Low Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Barn, Byre and Stable to West and North-west of Middle Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- The Granary and Damson House - 0.43 km
- Barn and Byres to North of Ellerby Bank Top Farmhouse - 0.76 km
- Ellerby Bank Top Farmhouse, Loose House to Right and Barn to Left - 0.77 km
- Northfields Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 1.25 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Ellerby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 7 lie within roughly a mile of Ellerby:
- Round barrow 180m west of Newton Brow - 1.22 km
- Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 550m south of Newton Brow - 1.34 km
- Round barrow 330m south west of Newton Brow - 1.36 km
- Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 510m south west of Newton Brow - 1.41 km
- Newton Mulgrave medieval settlement - 1.41 km
- Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 450m south west of Newton Brow - 1.42 km
- Round barrow in Newton Mulgrave Woods, 740m south of Newton Brow - 1.48 km
Ellerby Today
Today Ellerby lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 40 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 .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Newton Mulgrave - 1.4 km NW
- Borrowby - 2.2 km NW
- Grimesbi - 2.2 km NW
- Mickleby - 2.2 km SE
- East and West Barnby - 2.8 km SE
- Arnodestorp - 3.0 km N
Heritage Around Ellerby
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.
© Chris Twigg · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen McCulloch · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · 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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