Hemingbrough in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hemingbrough, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Howden

• Asselby
• Babthorpe
• Barlby
• Barmby [on the Marsh]
• Barnhill [Hall]
• Belby [House]
• Bowthorpe
• Brackenholme
• Burland [House]
• Cavil
• Cliffe
• Cotness [Hall]
• Eastrington
• Hagthorpe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hemingbrough is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place. 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 stronghold’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Hemingbrough

Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Hemingbrough. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Mary the Virgin - 0.29 km

Grade II

• Old Village School - 0.12 km
• The Orchard - 0.23 km
• Church Farmhouse - 0.27 km
• Coach House and Stables to Tythe Farm - 0.31 km
• Tythe Farm - 0.32 km
• Hawthorn House - 0.35 km
• The Old Hall - 0.37 km
• Cowshed and Granary to the Old Hall - 0.38 km
• Hoton House - 0.48 km
• The Hollies - 0.5 km
• The Villa - 0.63 km

Hemingbrough Today

Today Hemingbrough lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,996 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 Hemingbrough on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Cliffe - 1.4 km NW
• Babthorpe - 2.2 km SE
• Barmby on the Marsh - 2.8 km SE
• Brackenholme - 3.0 km E
• Hagthorpe - 3.0 km E
• Siuuarbi - 3.2 km E