Exelby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Exelby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, 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 Exelby 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 Exelby.
Listed Buildings Near Exelby
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Exelby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Orchard House - 0.62 km
- Exelby Lodge Cottage and Lodge Cottage - 0.63 km
- Pump Opposite Littlecroft House - 0.7 km
- Londonderry Lodge - 0.71 km
- Lilac Cottage - 0.71 km
- Fairfield - 0.72 km
- Littlecroft - 0.72 km
- Bromaking Grange - 0.81 km
- Barn (Approximately 5 Metres to Left of Bromaking Grange) - 0.82 km
- Clapham Lodge - 1.0 km
- Floodbridge - 1.04 km
- Cowfold Grange - 1.12 km
Exelby Today
Today Exelby lies within the administrative area of Exelby, Leeming and Londonderry.
Read more about modern Exelby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Exelby
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.
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · 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
54.2821°N, -1.5468°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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