Gate Helmsley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Gate Helmsley, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Bulford
- Aldwark
- Alne
- Barnby [House]
- Barton [le Willows]
- Beningbrough
- Bossall
- Brafferton
- Brandsby
- Bulmer
- Buttercrambe
- Carlton [Farm]
- Claxton
- Coneysthorpe
- Corburn
The Meaning of the Name
The name Gate Helmsley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Gate Helmsley.
Listed Buildings Near Gate Helmsley
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Gate Helmsley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Mary - 0.59 km
- Stamford Bridge Railway Viaduct - 1.26 km
Grade II
- The Elms and Iron Railings and Gates to Front Garden - 0.41 km
- Fox Farm - 0.44 km
- The Duke of York - 0.77 km
- The Black Horse Inn - 0.83 km
- Helmsley House the Cottage - 1.06 km
- Grange Farmhouse - 1.1 km
- Helmsley House Stable and Garden Wall - 1.1 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Gate Helmsley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Gate Helmsley:
- Roman minor town identified as Derventio - 1.38 km
Gate Helmsley Today
Today Gate Helmsley lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 296 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 Gate Helmsley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Warthill - 2.0 km W
- Upper Helmsley - 2.0 km N
- Holtby - 2.2 km SW
- Carlton Farm - 2.2 km NW
- High and Low Catton - 2.2 km SE
- Sand Hutton - 3.0 km N
Heritage Around [Gate] Helmsley
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.
© Chris Heaton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Kath Bonson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Keith Laverack · 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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