Faceby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Faceby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Faceby 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 Faceby.
Listed Buildings Near Faceby
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Faceby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Fir Tree House and Attached Stable - 0.26 km
- Meadowfield Attached Outhouse - 0.28 km
- Faceby House - 0.36 km
- Church of St Mary Magdalene - 0.46 km
- Gate and Piers to South East of Church of St Mary Magdalene - 0.47 km
- Faceby Manor, the Cottage West View - 0.47 km
- Gates, Piers and Overthrow to South of Church of St Mary Magdalene - 0.48 km
- Garden Wall to East of Faceby Manor - 0.5 km
- Faceby Manor Lodge - 0.98 km
Faceby Today
Today Faceby lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 189 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 Faceby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Carlton - 1.4 km NE
- Whorlton - 1.4 km SW
- Little Busby - 2.2 km NE
- Goulton Grange - 2.2 km NW
- Blaten Carr - 3.6 km NE
- Great Busby - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Faceby
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Rob Noble · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen McCulloch · 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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