Elwicks in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Elwicks is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Elwicks is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Elwicks.
Listed Buildings Near Elwicks
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Elwicks. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of the Ascension - 1.24 km
Grade II
- Boundary Stone - 0.23 km
- Boundary Stone - 0.65 km
- Boundary Stone - 0.93 km
- Thorpe Hill Farmhouse - 1.01 km
- Village Farm - 1.19 km
- Whixley Hall - 1.24 km
- Beech House and Attached Outbuildings - 1.24 km
- Broadlands Farmhouse - 1.24 km
- Garden Wall to South and East of Broadlands Farmhouse - 1.24 km
- Foldyard Approximately Twelve Metres South West of Kirby Hall Farmhouse - 1.28 km
- Farmbuilding approximately ten metres east of Manor Farm House - 1.29 km
- Farmbuildings Approximately Eighteen Metres South East of Kirby Hall Farmhouse - 1.29 km
- Manor Farm House - 1.29 km
Elwicks Today
Today Elwicks lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 266 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 Little Ouseburn on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thorpe Hill - 1.0 km E
- Little Ouseburn - 1.0 km N
- Whixley - 1.0 km S
- Thorpe Underwood - 2.0 km E
- Great Ouseburn - 2.0 km N
- Thornborough - 2.2 km SW
Heritage Around Elwicks
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.
© Carol Rose · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© hayley green · 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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