The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hawkswick, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hawkswick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Hawkswick

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Hawkswick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Hawkswick Bridge - 0.03 km
Thackholme - 0.04 km
Redmire Farmhouse - 0.06 km
Strand House - 0.11 km
Borrings Cottage and Attached Barn and Outbuilding - 0.18 km
Croft House - 0.24 km
Hazelhead Farmhouse With Gate Piers and Garden Wall to Front - 0.26 km
Coach House and Stables to Hazelhead Farmhouse - 0.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hawkswick

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hawkswick:

Medieval field system to SE of village - 1.06 km

Hawkswick Today

Today Hawkswick lies within the administrative area of Craven, and the settlement recorded a population of 58 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 Hawkswick on Wikipedia .