Flasby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Flasby, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Craven
- Addingham
- Airton
- Anley
- Appletreewick
- Arncliffe
- Arnford
- Barnoldswick
- Bashall [Eaves]
- Battersby [Barn]
- Beamsley
- Birkby [Hall]
- Bogeuurde
- Bolton [Abbey]
- Bolton [by Bowland]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Flasby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.
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 Flasby.
Listed Buildings Near Flasby
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Flasby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Eshton Hall - 0.95 km
- Brockabank - 1.22 km
Grade II
- Flasby Hall - 0.14 km
- Grange Farmhouse - 0.2 km
- Flasby Hall Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn - 0.26 km
- Flasby Hall: Tower - 0.27 km
- Flasby Top Cottage - 0.33 km
- Terrace Wall of Eshton Hall - 0.92 km
- Gatepiers and Gates at Eshton Hall - 1.0 km
- Eshton Mews the Coach House - 1.0 km
- Railings to Either Side of Eshton Road to West of Eshton Hall - 1.04 km
- Barn on Road 200 Metres West of Eshton Hall - 1.05 km
- Home Farmhouse and the Lodge - 1.07 km
- Eshton Grange - 1.26 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Flasby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Flasby:
- Cup marked rock in wall east of Scarnber Wood, 500m north east of Bark Laithe, Winterburn - 0.9 km
- High Wood bowl barrow - 0.9 km
Flasby Today
Today Flasby lies within the administrative area of Flasby with Winterburn.
Read more about modern Flasby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Leuetat - 0.0 km N
- Eshton - 1.0 km W
- Holme House - 2.0 km S
- Winterburn - 2.2 km NW
- Hetton - 2.8 km NE
- Gargrave - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Flasby
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.
© michael ely · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen Craven · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · 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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