Garrowby Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Garrowby Hall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Acklam in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Acklam
- Acklam
- Barthorpe [Grange]
- Bugthorpe
- Burythorpe
- Eddlethorpe
- Firby
- Fridaythorpe
- Howsham
- Kirby [Underdale]
- Kirkham
- Leavening
- Leppington
- Menethorpe
- Raisthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Garrowby Hall 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 Garrowby Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Garrowby Hall
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Garrowby Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Cheesecake House - 0.14 km
- Milestone at Se 789566 - 1.12 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Garrowby Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Garrowby Hall:
- Round barrow 100m north west of farm on Garrowby Hill Top - 1.1 km
- Round barrow 300m north-east of farm on Garrowby Hill Top - 1.34 km
- Round barrow 200m east of farm on Garrowby Hill Top - 1.41 km
Garrowby Hall Today
Today Garrowby Hall lies within the administrative area of Kirby Underdale.
Read more about modern Garrowby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Kirby Underdale - 1.4 km NE
- Bugthorpe - 2.0 km W
- Bishop Wilton - 2.0 km S
- Painsthorpe - 2.2 km NE
- Thoralby Hall - 2.2 km NW
- Uncleby - 2.8 km NE
Heritage Around Garrowby [Hall]
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.
© Roger Gilbertson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger Gilbertson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Patty McAlpin · 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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