Hinderwell in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Hinderwell is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hinderwell is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wella, a spring or stream. 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 spring’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hinderwell.
Listed Buildings Near Hinderwell
Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Hinderwell. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- St Hilda’s Well, in Churchyard to North of Church of St Hilda - 0.65 km
- Church of St Hilda - 0.66 km
- Walls to East and South of St Hilda’s Rectory - 0.69 km
- Barn and Farmyard Wall to North and West of Greylands Farmhouse - 0.69 km
- Greylands Farmhouse - 0.7 km
- 1, High Street - 0.7 km
- Mile Post to South of Port Mulgrave Road - 0.71 km
- The Badger Hounds Public House - 0.75 km
- 25 and 27, Porret Lane - 0.8 km
- Holme Farmhouse and Forecourt Wall to East - 0.81 km
- Thornhill - 0.87 km
- Methodist Chapel and Sunday School with forecourt walls - 0.89 km
- 99 and 101, High Street - 0.89 km
- 110, High Street - 0.94 km
- Hinderwell, Port Mulgrave and Runswick War Memorial Clock Tower - 0.96 km
- Barn and Byre to North of High Farmhouse - 0.97 km
- High Farmhouse - 0.99 km
- Forecourt to West of High Farmhouse - 1.0 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hinderwell
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Hinderwell:
- Round barrow and 20th century Royal Observer Corps post on Beacon Hill, known as the site of Hinderwell Beacon - 0.43 km
- St Hilda’s holy well - 0.65 km
Hinderwell Today
Today Hinderwell lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,775 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 Hinderwell on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Arnodestorp - 0.0 km N
- Seaton Hall - 1.0 km W
- Newton Mulgrave - 2.2 km SW
- Borrowby - 2.8 km SW
- Grimesbi - 2.8 km SW
- Ellerby - 3.0 km S
Heritage Around Hinderwell
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.
© Chris Twigg · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Donnylad · 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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