Gressingham in the Domesday Book (1086)
Gressingham is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Gressingham 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 Gressingham.
Listed Buildings Near Gressingham
Historic England records 24 listed buildings within about a mile of Gressingham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St John the Evangelist - 0.56 km
- Church of St Margaret - 1.28 km
Grade II*
- Gressingham Hall and Former Stables Adjoining - 0.52 km
- Loyne Bridge - 0.63 km
- Cross Base South of Church of St Margaret - 1.29 km
Grade II
- Pair of Gatepiers on South Side of Garden East of Gressingham Hall - 0.49 km
- Pair of Gatepiers on Roadside, Gressingham Hall - 0.53 km
- Crow Trees - 0.59 km
- Church Bank - 0.6 km
- Eskrigge House - 0.67 km
- Barn South of Eskrigge House - 0.67 km
- Eskrigge Hall - 0.68 km
- Box Tree Farmhouse - 0.74 km
- Lawnds Farmhouse - 0.86 km
- Sandbeds Farmhouse - 0.99 km
- Low House Farmhouse - 1.11 km
- Barn at Right Angles, South of Low House Farmhouse - 1.12 km
- Royal Oak Hotel - 1.14 km
- Park Cottage - 1.16 km
- Hornby Hall Cottage - 1.18 km
- Church of St Mary - 1.25 km
- War Memorial - 1.25 km
- The Presbytery, Church of St Mary - 1.25 km
- House Adjoining to North of Castle Hotel - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Gressingham
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Gressingham:
- Loyn Bridge - 0.63 km
- Castle Stede motte and bailey, Hornby - 0.75 km
- Hornby Bridge - 1.43 km
Gressingham Today
Today Gressingham lies within the administrative area of Lancaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 161 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 Gressingham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Gressingham
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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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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