Hartshead in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Morley

• Allerton
• Armley
• Batley
• Beeston
• Bolton
• Bowling
• Bradford
• Bramley
• Calverley
• Carlton
• Chellow [Grange]
• Clayton
• Clifton
• Cruttonstall

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hartshead is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hēafod, a headland or hill-top. 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 head of land’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Hartshead

Historic England records 35 listed buildings within about a mile of Hartshead. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of St Peter - 1.09 km
• Single Aisled Cow House - 1.18 km
• Home Farm Building Number 7 L Shaped Aisled Barn - 1.18 km

Grade II

• 120, Hartshead Lane - 0.31 km
• 121, Hartshead Lane - 0.32 km
• 119, Hartshead Lane - 0.33 km
• Parkinhole - 0.43 km
• 124 and 124A, Church Road - 0.54 km
• 120 and 122, Church Road - 0.55 km
• Barn Adjoining Number 120 - 0.56 km
• Roe Head - 0.83 km
• Base of Lamp Approximately 1 Metre to South of West Corner of South Wing of Roe Head - 0.9 km
• Bullace Trees Farmhouse - 1.01 km
• Barn Adjacent to Bullace Trees Farmhouse - 1.03 km
• Mounting Block Opposite Gates to St Peter’s Church - 1.05 km
• Stocks Opposite Gates to St Peter’s Church - 1.05 km
• Pogg Myers Farmhouse - 1.06 km
• Sundial to South of Chancel of St Peter’s Church - 1.08 km
• The Old School in St Peter’s Churchyard, North East of Church - 1.1 km
• Sundial at Priory Gardens, Kirklees Park - 1.11 km
• Barn 50 Yards to East of Mock Hall - 1.11 km
• The Nuns Grave - 1.12 km
• Mock Hall - 1.12 km
• Walls Which Enclose Former Orchard For Kirklees Priory 80 Metres East of Priory Gatehouse - 1.16 km

…and 11 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Hartshead

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Hartshead:

• Kirklees Priory, medieval nunnery - 1.17 km
• Castle Hill univallate defended settlement, Kirklees Park - 1.48 km

Hartshead Today

Today Hartshead lies within the administrative area of Kirklees.

Read more about modern Hartshead on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Liversedge - 1.4 km NE
• Clifton - 2.0 km W
• Bradley - 2.2 km SW
• Mirfield - 2.8 km SE
• Cleckheaton - 3.2 km N
• Upper Hopton - 4.1 km S