Foggathorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Foggathorpe, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Cave
- Aughton
- Drewton
- Ellerton
- Everthorpe
- Gribthorpe
- Hotham
- Laytham
- Melbourne
- Seaton [Ross]
- Thornton
- Yokefleet [Grange]
- [East] Cottingwith
- [High and Low] Hunsley
- [Kettle]thorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Foggathorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
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 Foggathorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Foggathorpe
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Foggathorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Milestone to East End of Milestone Cottage - 0.22 km
- Dovecote at Foggathorpe House - 0.57 km
- Main Range of Farm Buildings at Foggathorpe House - 0.59 km
- Foggathorpe House - 0.6 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Foggathorpe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Foggathorpe:
Foggathorpe Today
Today Foggathorpe lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 332 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 Foggathorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Laytham - 2.2 km NW
- Gribthorpe - 2.2 km SE
- Willitoft - 3.2 km S
- Spaldington - 4.0 km S
- Bubwith - 4.1 km W
- Seaton Ross - 5.0 km NE
Heritage Around Foggathorpe
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.
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© JThomas · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger Gilbertson · 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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