The settlement of Hackness is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Dic

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hackness is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word nes, a headland or promontory. 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 headland’.

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 Hackness.

Listed Buildings Near Hackness

Historic England records 23 listed buildings within about a mile of Hackness. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Peter - 0.31 km
Hackness Hall and railings attached to terrace on garden front - 0.51 km

Grade II

Bridge Over Lowdales Beck - 0.2 km
Low Hall - 0.21 km
Outbuilding, With Attached Pump and Wall, Approximately 12 Metres North of Low Hall - 0.22 km
Church Cottage - 0.27 km
Orangery - 0.35 km
Dovecote Approximately 2 Metres East of Keeper’s House - 0.37 km
Keeper’s House - 0.38 km
River View and Attached Cottage and Forge - 0.46 km
Red House and Railings Attached to Front Steps - 0.47 km
Hackness Grange Country Hotel - 0.48 km
Pinfold - 0.48 km
Dry Bridge Across Hackness to Suffield Road - 0.48 km
Ice House Approximately 10 Metres North-east of the Dry Bridge - 0.5 km
Stable Yard Approximately 10 Metres to South-east of Hackness Hall - 0.56 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.56 km
Barn Approximately 10 Metres South-east of Stable Yard at Hackness Hall - 0.59 km
Gates and Gate Piers Approximately 100 Metres North East of Hackness Hall - 0.6 km
Dutch Barn Approximately 10 Metres East of Stable Yard at Hackness Hall - 0.61 km
Cornmill Approximately 30 Metres North of Mill Farmhouse - 0.63 km
Mill Farmhouse - 0.66 km
Farmbuildings Approximately 40 Metres North-west of Wrench Green Farmhouse - 0.99 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hackness

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Hackness:

Hackness Today

Today Hackness lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 128 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 Hackness on Wikipedia .