Everingham in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Everingham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Pocklington

• Allerthorpe
• Barmby [Moor]
• Belthorpe
• Bielby
• Bolton
• Burnby
• Chetelstorp
• Deighton
• Elvington
• Escrick
• Fangfoss
• Gowthorpe
• Greenwick
• Hayton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Everingham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Everingham

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

Grade I

• Chapel of the Virgin and Saint Everilda - 0.32 km
• Everingham Hall - 0.35 km

Grade II*

• Church of Saint Everilda - 0.26 km

Grade II

• Chapel About 60 Metres East of Church of Saint Everilda - 0.2 km
• North Lodge - 0.32 km
• The Rectory - 0.32 km
• The Beeches - 0.87 km

Everingham Today

Today Everingham lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 296 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 Everingham on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Seaton Ross - 2.2 km SW
• Bielby - 2.2 km NW
• Harswell - 2.8 km SE
• Allerthorpe - 2.8 km NW
• Thorpe le Street - 3.6 km NE
• Torp - 3.6 km NE