Fadmoor in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Fadmoor is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Maneshou
- Amotherby
- Ampleforth
- Appleton [le Street]
- Beadlam
- Brawby
- Broughton
- Cawton
- Coulton
- Fryton
- Gillamoor
- Gilling [East]
- Griff [Farm]
- Grimston
- Harome
The Meaning of the Name
The name Fadmoor is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word mōr, moorland or marsh. 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 moorland’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Fadmoor.
Listed Buildings Near Fadmoor
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Fadmoor. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Laburnum Cottage - 0.08 km
- Westfield Farmhouse - 0.17 km
- Royal Oak - 0.8 km
- Sundial Approximately 20 Metres South of Dial House - 0.88 km
- Church of St Aidan - 1.06 km
Fadmoor Today
Today Fadmoor lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 108 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 Fadmoor on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Gillamoor - 1.4 km NE
- Hoveton - 3.0 km S
- Hutton le Hole - 3.2 km E
- Kirby Moorside - 3.6 km SE
- Spaunton - 5.0 km E
- Pockley - 5.0 km SW
Heritage Around Fadmoor
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.
© Les Hull · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Grice · 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.
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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