Felixkirk is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Yarlestre

The Meaning of the Name

The name Felixkirk is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word kirkja, a church. 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 church’.

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 Felixkirk.

Listed Buildings Near Felixkirk

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Felixkirk. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Felix - 0.34 km
Mount St John - 0.81 km

Grade II

Felixkirk School - 0.26 km
High Anson House - 0.28 km
Richmond House - 0.29 km
Stableblock at Mount St John to North East of House - 0.85 km
Nevison House - 0.92 km
Marderby Grange - 1.15 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Felixkirk

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Felixkirk:

Felixkirk Today

Today Felixkirk lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 88 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 Felixkirk on Wikipedia .