Fors Abbey in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Fors Abbey is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Fors Abbey 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 Fors Abbey.
Listed Buildings Near Fors Abbey
Historic England records 26 listed buildings within about a mile of Fors Abbey. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of Saint Oswald - 1.28 km
Grade II*
- Coleby Hall - 0.74 km
- West End House - 1.29 km
Grade II
- Stable and Hayloft Adjacent to Friends Meeting House - 0.16 km
- Friends’ Meeting House - 0.17 km
- Cravenholme - 0.21 km
- Rose and Crown Hotel - 0.25 km
- Low Mill - 0.26 km
- Manor House - 0.29 km
- Yorebridge House Screen Walls and Roadside Wall With Railings - 0.29 km
- Yorebridge Grammar School - 0.32 km
- Yore Bridge - 0.35 km
- Stocks - 0.38 km
- Abbey Cottage - 0.38 km
- Bridge Over River Bain - 0.39 km
- Old Hall - 0.48 km
- South View - 0.5 km
- Milestone Approximately 400 Metres West of Junction With Bainbridge Road - 0.73 km
- West Mill - 1.03 km
- Flax Mill Farm - 1.05 km
- Spen House (Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings) - 1.22 km
- New Row and Railings - 1.24 km
- Peninver House - 1.26 km
- Croft House - 1.27 km
…and 2 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Fors Abbey
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Fors Abbey:
- Bainbridge Roman fort and annexe - 0.36 km
- Bow Bridge 90m east of Bowbridge Hill - 0.58 km
- Bainbridge slight univallate hillfort - 0.75 km
- Ring cairn 580m west of Askrigg church - 0.78 km
Fors Abbey Today
Today Fors Abbey lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 467 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 Bainbridge on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Brough Hill - 0.0 km N
- Askrigg - 1.4 km NE
- Denton - 1.4 km NE
- Dentone - 1.4 km NE
- Worton - 2.0 km E
- Thornton Rust - 4.5 km SE
Heritage Around Fors [Abbey]
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.
© Adie Jackson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Pickersgill · 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.
Location
54.3099°N, -2.0999°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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