The settlement of Ganstead is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ganstead is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word stede, a place or site. 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 site’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Ganstead

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Ganstead. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Turmer Hall - 1.19 km

Ganstead Today

Today Ganstead lies within the administrative area of Bilton.

Read more about modern Ganstead on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Coniston - 1.4 km NE
Swine - 1.4 km NW
Oubrough - 2.2 km NE
Bilton - 2.2 km SE
Thirtleby - 3.0 km E
Wyton - 3.2 km E

Heritage Around Ganstead

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.

Priory Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Swine (2006)
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Priory Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Swine (2005)
© Stephen Horncastle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Castle Hill (1) (2008)
© Peter Church · 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.

Ganstead in the Domesday Book (1086)