The settlement of Great Braham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Great Braham at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Great Braham supported a recorded population of 2 villagers, 4 smallholders, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey records Great Braham’s value at 10d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Great Braham (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 10d)
Meadow: 6 acres
Woodland: 1 * 1 leagues

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Braham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Great Braham

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Great Braham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II