Fangfoss in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Fangfoss, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Pocklington
- Allerthorpe
- Barmby [Moor]
- Belthorpe
- Bielby
- Bolton
- Burnby
- Chetelstorp
- Deighton
- Elvington
- Escrick
- Everingham
- Gowthorpe
- Greenwick
- Hayton
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Fangfoss is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Fangfoss.
Listed Buildings Near Fangfoss
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Fangfoss. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Martin - 0.15 km
- Fangfoss Hall - 0.16 km
Grade II
- Ivy Farmhouse - 0.13 km
- Stables to Fangfoss Hall - 0.13 km
- The Manor House - 0.21 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Fangfoss
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Fangfoss:
- Bolton Old Hall moated site - 1.5 km
Fangfoss Today
Today Fangfoss lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 594 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 Fangfoss on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Fangfoss
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Charles Rispin · 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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