Farnham in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Farnham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The name Farnham 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 Farnham.
Listed Buildings Near Farnham
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Farnham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Oswald - 0.23 km
Grade II
- 2 Chest Tombs Approximately 10 Metres South of Porch of Church of St Oswald - 0.23 km
- 2 Chest Tombs Approximately 10 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Oswald - 0.24 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.34 km
- Farnham Hall - 0.4 km
- The Old Manor House - 0.43 km
- Gibbet Cottage - 1.07 km
Farnham Today
Today Farnham lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 213 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 Farnham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Farnham
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.
© R J McNaughton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Salmon · 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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