Hagthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Hagthorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Howden
- Asselby
- Babthorpe
- Barlby
- Barmby [on the Marsh]
- Barnhill [Hall]
- Belby [House]
- Bowthorpe
- Brackenholme
- Burland [House]
- Cavil
- Cliffe
- Cotness [Hall]
- Eastrington
- Hemingbrough
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hagthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
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 Hagthorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Hagthorpe
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Hagthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Ruins of Wressle Castle - 1.08 km
Grade II*
Grade II
- Hagthorpe Hall - 0.54 km
- Stables to Hagthorpe Hall - 0.58 km
- Derwent View - 0.6 km
- Windmill Tower at Mill Farm - 0.78 km
- Church of St John of Beverley - 0.81 km
- Castle Farmhouse - 1.1 km
- Ruined Walling Adjoining Wressle Castle on the East - 1.11 km
- The Long Barn at Wressle Castle Farm - 1.14 km
- Holly Cottage - 1.21 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hagthorpe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hagthorpe:
- Wressle Castle - 1.11 km
Hagthorpe Today
Today Hagthorpe lies within the administrative area of Hemingbrough.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Brackenholme - 0.0 km N
- Siuuarbi - 1.0 km N
- Wressle - 1.0 km N
- Babthorpe - 1.4 km SW
- Newsholme - 1.4 km SE
- Barmby on the Marsh - 2.2 km SW
Heritage Around Hagthorpe
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.
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Glyn Drury · 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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