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

Other Settlements in Agbrigg

The Meaning of the Name

The name Emley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Emley

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Emley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Michael - 0.18 km

Grade II*

Thorncliffe Grange Farmhouse - 0.4 km

Grade II

Market Cross at Junction With Upper Lane - 0.48 km
Kirkby Grange Hall - 0.76 km
Farmbuildings 10 Metres North West of Kirby Grange Hall - 0.79 km
Aisled Barn 20 Metres North of Kirby Grange Hall - 0.81 km
White Cross Farmhouse - 1.28 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Emley

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Emley:

Standing cross at Emley - 0.47 km
Emley Day Holes, 200m east of Churchill Farm - 0.98 km

Emley Today

Today Emley lies within the administrative area of Denby Dale, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,434 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Emley on Wikipedia .