Heuurde in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Heuurde, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Craven
- Addingham
- Airton
- Anley
- Appletreewick
- Arncliffe
- Arnford
- Barnoldswick
- Bashall [Eaves]
- Battersby [Barn]
- Beamsley
- Birkby [Hall]
- Bogeuurde
- Bolton [Abbey]
- Bolton [by Bowland]
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Heuurde 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 Heuurde.
Listed Buildings Near Heuurde
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Heuurde. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Old Hall With Boundary Wall to Front and Old Hall Cottage - 0.43 km
- Hemplands Farmhouse - 0.45 km
- Barn at Sd 9813 6744 - 0.46 km
- Maypole Cottage, Formerly Conistone Post Office - 0.49 km
- Two Chest Tombs Approximately 5 Metres South of the Church of St Mary - 0.5 km
- K6 telephone kiosk, Conistone - 0.5 km
- Renshaw Farm Cottage - 0.51 km
- Church of St Mary - 0.51 km
- Renshaw Farmhouse - 0.51 km
- Topham’s Farmhouse - 0.52 km
- Conistone Bridge Over River Wharfe - 0.65 km
- Angler’s Cottage - 1.17 km
- Crag Cottage - 1.27 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Heuurde
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 9 lie within roughly a mile of Heuurde:
- Enclosure S of Bull Scar - 0.37 km
- Enclosures 600yds (550m) SE of Wassa Hill - 0.58 km
- Hut circle, farm site and enclosures 340yds (310m) NE of Wassa Hill - 0.84 km
- Cairn on Old Pasture 885m NE of Little Lathe - 0.85 km
- Fields and hut circles SE of Scot Gate Lane - 0.88 km
- Enclosures on Old Pasture - 0.98 km
- Cairn on Old Pasture, 820m south east of Bull Scar - 0.98 km
- Enclosures and house sites NE of Hill Castles Scar - 1.09 km
- Cairns and settlements on Lea Green - 1.57 km
Heuurde Today
Today Heuurde lies within the administrative area of Craven, and the settlement recorded a population of 136 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 Conistone with Kilnsey on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Conistone - 0.0 km N
- Heuuorde - 0.0 km N
- Kilnsey - 1.0 km W
- Grassington - 3.6 km SE
- Threshfield - 4.0 km S
- Hawkswick - 4.2 km NW
Heritage Around Heuurde
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.
© Stephen Craven · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris Heaton · 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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