Hellifield appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hellifield 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 Hellifield.

Listed Buildings Near Hellifield

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Hellifield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Hellifield House - 0.02 km
Rook Cottage - 0.06 km
Church of St Aidan - 0.07 km
Milepost - 0.32 km
Milestone - 0.35 km
Numbers 1-4 (Consecutive) and Entrance Gatepiers to Number 4 - 0.39 km
Hellifield Station Main Passenger Building - 0.88 km
Hellifield Peel - 0.97 km
Milestone at Turn For Goosemere Height - 1.1 km
Goosemere Height Farmhouse - 1.14 km
Milestone - 1.21 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hellifield

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

Hellifield Peel - 0.97 km

Hellifield Today

Today Hellifield lies within the administrative area of Craven, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,515 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 Hellifield on Wikipedia .