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Greenhalgh in the Domesday Book (1086)

YEAR: 1086 HUNDRED: Amounderness COUNTY: Yorkshire

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Greenhalgh, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Greenhalgh 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 Greenhalgh.

Listed Buildings Near Greenhalgh

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Greenhalgh. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Greenhalgh Today

Today Greenhalgh lies within the administrative area of Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton.

Read more about modern Greenhalgh on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Heritage Around Greenhalgh

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.

Graveyard of St Anne's RC Church, Westby Mills
Graveyard of St Anne's RC Church, Westby Mills (2007)
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Parish Church of St Nicholas, War Memorial
The Parish Church of St Nicholas, War Memorial (2012)
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Wesham
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Wesham (2007)
© Martin Evans · 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.

Location

53.8121°N, -2.9037°W · Amounderness hundred, Yorkshire

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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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