Elstronwick in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Elstronwick 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]

• Aldbrough
• Benningholme [Hall]
• Bewick [Hall]
• Bilton
• Burton [Constable]
• Burton [Pidsea]
• Conis[ton]
• Danthorpe
• Dowthorpe [Hall]
• Drypool
• Ellerby
• Eske
• Etherdwick
• Fitling

The Meaning of the Name

The name Elstronwick 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 Elstronwick.

Listed Buildings Near Elstronwick

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Elstronwick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Church of St Lawrence - 0.2 km
• Elstronwick Hall - 0.61 km
• Danthorpe Hall - 0.8 km
• Bridge Farmhouse - 1.22 km

Elstronwick Today

Today Elstronwick lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 294 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 Elstronwick on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Danthorpe - 1.0 km E
• Burton Pidsea - 2.2 km SE
• Lelley Dyke - 2.2 km NW
• Fostun - 2.2 km NW
• Fostune - 2.2 km NW
• Humbleton - 2.2 km NW