Hessle in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Hessle

• Anlaby
• Breighton
• Bubwith
• Chetelestorp
• Chrachetorp
• Crachetorp
• Gunby
• Lund
• Myton
• Newsholme
• Riplingham
• Siuuarbi
• Spaldington
• Totfled

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hessle is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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

Listed Buildings Near Hessle

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

Grade I

• Church of All Saints - 0.31 km

Grade II

• North Lodge - 0.28 km
• 11 and 13, the Square - 0.29 km
• 9, Northgate - 0.33 km
• 7, Northgate - 0.33 km
• 36, Northgate - 0.33 km
• 26, the Weir - 0.43 km
• 24, the Weir - 0.43 km
• 16-22, the Weir - 0.44 km
• Mortuary Chapel in Hessle Cemetery - 0.46 km
• Woodlands Lodge - 1.16 km
• 95, Ferriby Road - 1.23 km

Hessle Today

Today Hessle lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 15,486 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 Hessle on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Chrachetorp - 0.0 km N
• Crachetorp - 0.0 km N
• Anlaby - 2.0 km N
• Wolfreton - 3.0 km N
• Kirk Ella - 3.2 km N
• Willerby - 4.0 km N