The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Great Hatfield, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Hatfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Great Hatfield

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Great Hatfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Wayside Cross - 0.41 km
Great Hatfield War Memorial - 0.45 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Great Hatfield

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Great Hatfield:

Great Hatfield Cross - 0.41 km

Great Hatfield Today

Today Great Hatfield lies within the administrative area of Hatfield.

Read more about modern Great Hatfield on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Arnestorp - 0.0 km N
Little Hatfield - 1.4 km NW
Goxhill - 2.0 km N
Withernwick - 2.2 km SE
Marton - 3.0 km S
Langthorpe Hall - 3.6 km SW

Heritage Around [Great] Hatfield

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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Great Hatfield in the Domesday Book (1086)