Green Hammerton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Green Hammerton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 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 name Green Hammerton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Green Hammerton.
Listed Buildings Near Green Hammerton
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Green Hammerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Low Royd - 0.47 km
- Hall Farm House - 0.52 km
- Green Farmhouse and Front Garden Wall - 0.56 km
- Jasmine Cottage and House Attached to Left - 0.59 km
- Plum Cottage With Front Wall Railings and Gate - 0.6 km
- Stamford House and Front Railings - 0.62 km
- High Farm House and Railings to Front - 0.69 km
- Post Office and 2 Attached Houses - 0.75 km
- Chapel of St Thomas - 0.88 km
- Laburnum’s Farm House - 1.17 km
- Stables to Rear of Laburnum’s Farm House - 1.17 km
- Barn and Gin Gang to North of Laburnum’s Farm House - 1.2 km
- Pear Tree House - 1.22 km
Green Hammerton Today
Today Green Hammerton lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 994 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 Green Hammerton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Whixley - 1.4 km NW
- Thorpe Hill - 2.0 km N
- Thorpe Underwood - 2.2 km NE
- Elwicks - 2.2 km NW
- Kirk Hammerton - 2.2 km SE
- Cattal - 3.0 km S
Heritage Around [Green] Hammerton
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.
© John S Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Martyn Gorman · 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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