Felliscliffe in the Domesday Book (1086)
Felliscliffe is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 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 Felliscliffe is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word clif, a cliff or steep slope. 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 slope’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Felliscliffe.
Listed Buildings Near Felliscliffe
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Felliscliffe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- West Syke Manor - 0.93 km
- Cragg Hall With Barn and Outbuilding - 0.98 km
- Milepost at Se 2242 5618 - 1.2 km
- Ivy House Farmhouse - 1.23 km
- Kettlesing Grange - 1.23 km
- War Memorial - 1.24 km
Felliscliffe Today
Today Felliscliffe lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 352 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 Felliscliffe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Felliscliffe
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.
© Tom Blackwell · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Michael Steele · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Malcolm Street · 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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