Grimston Grange in the Domesday Book (1086)
Grimston Grange is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Barkston
- Barkston
- Barlow
- Birkin
- Bramham
- Brayton
- Burton [Hall]
- Camblesforth
- Carlton
- Clifford
- Drax
- Fairburn
- Hambleton
- Hazelwood [Castle]
- Hunchilhuse
The Meaning of the Name
The name Grimston Grange 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 Grimston Grange.
Listed Buildings Near Grimston Grange
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Grimston Grange. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Grimston Park - 1.26 km
Grade II
- Grimston Lodge - 0.15 km
- Entrance Lodge, Gates, Piers and Walls to South East of Grimston Lodge - 0.32 km
- Manor House - 0.56 km
- Hare and Hounds - 0.6 km
- Rose Cottage - 0.82 km
- Grimston Tower - 0.94 km
- Windmill - 1.17 km
- Fountain Approximately 30 Metres to West of House - 1.18 km
- Wall, Piers and Railings Approximately 100 Metres to North of House - 1.2 km
- Lodge, Gates, Walls, Railings and Piers to North of House - 1.21 km
- Summer House Approximately 10 Metres to West of House - 1.22 km
- Wall With Obelisks Approximately 15 Metres to North of House - 1.22 km
Grimston Grange Today
Today Grimston Grange lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 56 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 Grimston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Grimston [Grange]
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Betty Longbottom · 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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