Grindale is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Hunthow in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Hunthow

The Meaning of the Name

The name Grindale is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word dalr, a valley. 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 valley’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Grindale.

Scheduled Monuments Near Grindale

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Grindale:

Grindale shrunken medieval village - 0.86 km

Grindale Today

Today Grindale lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 96 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 Grindale on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Argam - 1.4 km NW
Thorpe Hall - 2.2 km SW
Low Caythorpe - 3.2 km S
Boynton - 3.2 km S
Boynton Hall - 3.2 km S
Easton - 3.6 km SE

Heritage Around Grindale

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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Grindale in the Domesday Book (1086)