High Blandsby in the Domesday Book (1086)
High Blandsby is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Appleton [le Moors]
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Barton [le Street]
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
The Meaning of the Name
The name High Blandsby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, 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’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as High Blandsby.
Listed Buildings Near High Blandsby
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of High Blandsby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Farm Buildings to Blansby Park Farm - 0.79 km
- Blansby Park Farmhouse - 0.83 km
- Farm Buildings to West Farm - 1.17 km
- Farmhouse to West Farm - 1.2 km
Scheduled Monuments Near High Blandsby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 5 lie within roughly a mile of High Blandsby:
- Round barrow 440m north of Blansby Park Farm - 0.43 km
- Four round barrows 875m north west of High Blansby - 0.78 km
- Two round barrows 800m south of Farfields - 1.18 km
- Three round barrows on Ness Head 750m east of Howlgate Farm - 1.43 km
- Two round barrows 400m south west of West Farm - 1.55 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [High] Blandsby
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.
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© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · 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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