High and Low Hunsley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of High and Low Hunsley, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Cave
- Aughton
- Drewton
- Ellerton
- Everthorpe
- Foggathorpe
- Gribthorpe
- Hotham
- Laytham
- Melbourne
- Seaton [Ross]
- Thornton
- Yokefleet [Grange]
- [East] Cottingwith
- [Kettle]thorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name High and Low Hunsley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as High and Low Hunsley.
High and Low Hunsley Today
Today High and Low Hunsley lies within the administrative area of Rowley.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Riplingham - 2.2 km SE
- Drewton - 3.2 km W
- Little Weighton - 3.2 km E
- Kettlethorpe - 4.1 km W
- North and South Newbald - 4.1 km W
- South Cave - 4.2 km SW
Heritage Around [High and Low] Hunsley
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.
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Harrop · 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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