High Hoyland in the Domesday Book (1086)
High Hoyland appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Staincross
- Adlingfleet
- Barnby [Hall]
- Barnsley
- Barugh
- Brierley
- Carlton
- Cawthorne
- Chevet
- Clactone
- Clayton [West]
- Darton
- Dodworth
- Hemsworth
- Hoyland [Swaine]
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name High Hoyland 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 High Hoyland.
Listed Buildings Near High Hoyland
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of High Hoyland. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Raised Grave Slab (Copley) Approximately 10 Metres South of East End of Chancel of Church of All Hallows - 0.19 km
- Raised Grave Slab (Knight) Approximately 5 Metres South of Nave of Church of All Hallows - 0.2 km
- Two Tomb Chests (Moreton, Croft) Approximately 5 Metres South East of Chancel Porch of Church of All Hallows - 0.2 km
- Raised Grave Slab (Cawthrey) Approximately 5 Metres South East of South Porch of Church of All Hallows - 0.21 km
- Raised Grave Slab (Ellis) Approximately 10 Metres South of South Porch of Church of All Hallows - 0.21 km
- Church of All Hallows - 0.22 km
- Hoyland Hall - 0.33 km
- Field Barn Approximately 120 Metres West of Farmhouse at Hall Farm - 0.44 km
- Winter Hill Farmhouse - 1.03 km
- Bilham Grange Farmhouse - 1.2 km
High Hoyland Today
Today High Hoyland lies within the administrative area of Barnsley, and the settlement recorded a population of 128 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 High Hoyland on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Clayton West - 1.0 km W
- Kexbrough - 2.2 km SE
- Barnby Hall - 2.8 km SE
- West Bretton - 3.2 km N
- Cawthorne - 3.2 km S
- Skelmanthorpe - 4.0 km W
Heritage Around [High] Hoyland
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.
© Nigel Homer · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Nigel Homer · 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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