Hellaby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hellaby, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hellaby 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 Hellaby.
Listed Buildings Near Hellaby
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Hellaby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Hellaby Hall - 0.2 km
Grade II
- Stable Approximately 20 Metres to North East of Hellaby Hall - 0.18 km
- Milepost Opposite Junction With Addison Road - 1.09 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hellaby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hellaby:
Hellaby Today
Today Hellaby lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 785 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 Hellaby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Bramley - 1.0 km W
- Newhall Grange - 1.0 km S
- Hooton Levitt - 2.2 km SE
- Maltby - 2.2 km SE
- Braithwell - 2.8 km NE
- Wickersley - 3.2 km W
Heritage Around Hellaby
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.
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · 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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