The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Griff Farm, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Griff Farm at 10.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Griff Farm supported a recorded population of 20 villagers, 10 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 8 ploughs between them.

The survey records Griff Farm’s value at 9.2 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Griff Farm (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 1d)
Cattle: 10
Pigs: 10
Sheep: 48
Horses (cobs): 1
Fisheries: 1
Meadow: 8 acres
Woodland: 1 * 1 furlongs

Other Settlements in Maneshou

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Griff Farm 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 Griff Farm.

Listed Buildings Near Griff Farm

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

Grade I