Hemlington in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hemlington, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

• Acklam
• Airy [Holme]
• Aislaby
• Arnodestorp
• Baldebi
• Barnaby
• Barwick
• Battersby
• Bergolbi
• Berguluesbi
• Blaten [Carr]
• Borrowby
• Breck
• Brotton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hemlington is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, 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’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Hemlington

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Hemlington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Gunnergate Farmhouse and Farm Cottage - 0.98 km
• Barn and Stable, 15M. East of Gunnergate Farmhouse - 1.0 km
• Coulby Manor - 1.01 km
• Walls Enclosing Carpark, C30m South-west of Coulby Manor - 1.01 km

Hemlington Today

Today Hemlington lies within the administrative area of Middlesbrough, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,900 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Hemlington on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Coulby - 1.0 km S
• Marton in Cleveland - 1.4 km NE
• Newham Hall - 1.4 km SE
• Stainton - 2.0 km W
• Tollesby - 2.2 km NE
• Tunstall Farm - 2.8 km SE