Eppleby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Eppleby, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Eppleby 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 Eppleby.
Listed Buildings Near Eppleby
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Eppleby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Forcett Hall - 1.17 km
Grade II*
- Dovecote - 1.0 km
- Stable Block to East of Forcett Hall - 1.17 km
- East Gateway and Lodges - 1.18 km
Grade II
- Village Farmhouse - 0.26 km
- Sundial in Centre of Walled Kitchen Garden - 1.03 km
- Garden Walls With Gates and Garden House - 1.09 km
- North Gateway - 1.15 km
- Church of St Cuthbert - 1.24 km
- Walker tombstone approximately 4 metres south-east of south-east corner of nave of Church of St Cuthbert - 1.25 km
- Two Panelled Chest Tombs Approximately Three Metres South of East End of Chancel of Church of St Cuthbert - 1.25 km
- Ambrose Pierson Panelled Chest Tomb Approximately Six Metres South of Nave of Church of St Cuthbert - 1.25 km
Eppleby Today
Today Eppleby lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 263 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 Eppleby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Eppleby
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.
© Hugh Mortimer · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stanley Howe · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Hugh Mortimer · 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.
Location
54.5163°N, -1.7296°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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