The settlement of Hatfield is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Hatfield at 2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Hatfield supported a recorded population of 9 villagers, 10 smallholders, working 5 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Hatfield’s value at 2 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Resources Recorded at Hatfield (1086)

Meadow: 12 acres
Woodland: 3 * 3 furlongs

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hatfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Hatfield

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

Grade I

Hatfield Manor House - 0.32 km
Church of St Lawrence - 0.33 km

Grade II

Stable-block Approximately 20 Metres to Rear of the Mews - 0.04 km
Number 54 (Pyenest Flat 1-4 Inclusive) - 0.05 km
Hatfield Methodist Church - 0.18 km
Iron Gates to South East Corner of Churchyard to Church of St Lawrence - 0.29 km
Number 13 (The Shambles) and Number 15 - 0.36 km
Hawthorne House - 0.37 km
The Grange - 0.38 km
11 (Church Lodge) and 13 Station Road - 0.38 km
Milepost Approximately 30 Metres to North of Entrance to Hatfield Manor House - 0.38 km
Old Travis Charity School - 0.41 km
31 Manor Road - 0.5 km
Thackray House - 0.54 km
Stable-block and Coach House Immediately to Rear of Thackray House - 0.55 km
The Leylands - 0.57 km
Barn Immediately to South East of Hatfield House Farmhouse - 0.6 km
Coachhouse immediately to south-west of Hatfield House Farmhouse - 0.62 km
Mortuary Chapel at Hatfield Cemetery - 0.77 km
Ash Hill Lodge - 0.8 km
Bow House - 0.83 km
Tower Mill at Mill House - 0.84 km
Broom Lodge - 1.01 km

Hatfield Today

Today Hatfield lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 17,149 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 Hatfield on Wikipedia .