Hawnby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hawnby, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Allerton
- Ainderby [Steeple]
- Appleton [Wiske]
- Arncliffe [Hall]
- Birkby
- Borrowby
- Brompton
- Cowesby
- Crosby [Grange]
- Dale [Town]
- Deighton
- Ellerbeck
- Foxton
- Girsby
- Hornby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hawnby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
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 Hawnby.
Listed Buildings Near Hawnby
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Hawnby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of All Saints - 0.97 km
Grade II
- Mill House - 0.36 km
- 1, Front Street - 0.37 km
- The Village Stores - 0.38 km
- The Village Hall - 0.4 km
- Wesleyan Chapel - 0.4 km
- 6, Front Street - 0.4 km
- Wesley Cottage - 0.4 km
- Jack Row - 0.46 km
- Hawnby House - 0.48 km
- Easterside Farmhouse - 0.66 km
- Ristbrow Farmhouse - 0.69 km
- Church Bridge - 1.19 km
Hawnby Today
Today Hawnby lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 193 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 Hawnby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Dale Town - 1.4 km SW
- Murton - 1.4 km SW
- Arden Hall - 2.2 km NW
- Stainton - 4.1 km N
- Old Byland - 4.1 km S
- Cold Kirby - 5.1 km S
Heritage Around Hawnby
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · 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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