Great Ouseburn in the Domesday Book (1086)
Great Ouseburn is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Great Ouseburn is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Great Ouseburn.
Listed Buildings Near Great Ouseburn
Historic England records 43 listed buildings within about a mile of Great Ouseburn. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.72 km
Grade II*
- Church of St Mary - 0.43 km
- Thompson Mausoleum approximately twenty metres south west of the Church of The Holy Trinity - 0.7 km
Grade II
- Cedar Croft - 0.4 km
- Manor House Garage - 0.4 km
- St.Mary’s Churchyard walls and cross - 0.41 km
- Holly Cottage, Front Garden Wall, Gate and Railings - 0.41 km
- Rosecroft and Attached Garden Wall, Gate and Railings - 0.41 km
- Church Hill Cottage - 0.42 km
- Church Hill Farm House - 0.42 km
- Springfield Farm House - 0.43 km
- Walnut Farm House - 0.44 km
- Garden Wall Approximately Five Metres North West of Church Hill Farm House - 0.44 km
- Prospect Farm House - 0.44 km
- Well Farm House - 0.45 km
- Yeoman’s Cottage - 0.46 km
- Wingate Cottage - 0.48 km
- Broadlands Farmhouse - 0.76 km
- Moat Hall - 0.76 km
- Garden Wall to South and East of Broadlands Farmhouse - 0.77 km
- Beech House and Attached Outbuildings - 0.78 km
- Wall Approximately Five Metres West of Sloethorne Farmhouse - 0.8 km
- Manor Farm House - 0.8 km
- Sloethorne Farmhouse - 0.8 km
…and 19 more listed structures in the area.
Great Ouseburn Today
Today Great Ouseburn lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 623 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 Great Ouseburn on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Kirby Hall - 1.0 km E
- Branton Green - 1.0 km N
- Little Ouseburn - 1.0 km S
- Lower and Upper Dunsforth - 2.0 km N
- Elwicks - 2.0 km S
- Thorpe Hill - 2.2 km SE
Heritage Around [Great] Ouseburn
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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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