Goldthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Goldthorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Goldthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
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 Goldthorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Goldthorpe
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Goldthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Church of St John and St Mary Magdalene - 0.27 km
Goldthorpe Today
Today Goldthorpe lies within the administrative area of Barnsley, and the settlement recorded a population of 6,051 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Goldthorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thurnscoe - 1.4 km NW
- Deightonby Fields - 2.0 km N
- Hickleton - 2.2 km NE
- Barnbrough - 2.2 km SE
- Stotfold - 2.2 km NE
- Bolton upon Dearne - 2.2 km SW
Heritage Around Goldthorpe
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.
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · 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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