Hackforth in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Hackforth is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hackforth is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hackforth.
Listed Buildings Near Hackforth
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Hackforth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Gyll Hall - 0.26 km
- Rudd Hall - 0.49 km
- Manor House Farmhouse - 1.09 km
Hackforth Today
Today Hackforth lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 186 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 Hackforth on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- East Appleton - 1.4 km NW
- Hornby - 2.2 km SW
- Killerby Hall - 2.2 km NE
- Ainderby Mires - 2.2 km SE
- Holtby Hall - 2.8 km SE
- Catterick - 3.0 km N
Heritage Around Hackforth
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.
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Oliver Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Oliver Dixon · 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
54.3453°N, -1.6231°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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