Gowthorpe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Pocklington

The Meaning of the Name

The name Gowthorpe 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 Gowthorpe.

Listed Buildings Near Gowthorpe

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Gowthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Fangfoss Hall - 1.1 km
Church of St Martin - 1.13 km

Grade II

Gowthorpe Today

Today Gowthorpe lies within the administrative area of Bishop Wilton.

Read more about modern Gowthorpe on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Youlthorpe - 1.0 km N
Fangfoss - 1.0 km S
Belthorpe - 2.0 km E
Bolton - 2.2 km SE
Yapham - 2.8 km SE
Bishop Wilton - 3.2 km E

Heritage Around Gowthorpe

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.

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Gowthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)