Fornetorp in the Domesday Book (1086)

Fornetorp appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burton

• Binnington
• Boythorpe
• Burton [Agnes]
• Butterwick
• Carnaby
• Ganton
• Gransmoor
• Haisthorpe
• Harpham
• Kilham
• Langtoft
• Lowthorpe
• Octon
• Rudston

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Fornetorp is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Fornetorp.

Listed Buildings Near Fornetorp

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Fornetorp. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of All Saints - 0.4 km

Grade II

• Pear Tree Farmhouse - 0.51 km
• The Post Office - 0.52 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Fornetorp

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Fornetorp:

• Deserted village of Octon - 1.49 km

Fornetorp Today

Today Fornetorp lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 210 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 Thwing on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Thwing - 0.0 km N
• Octon - 1.4 km SW
• Swaythorpe - 1.4 km SW
• Wold Newton - 3.0 km N
• Foxholes - 4.2 km NW
• Burton Fleming - 4.5 km NE