The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hipperholme, entered under the hundred of Morley in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Morley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hipperholme is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word holmr, an island or patch of raised ground in marsh. 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 island’.

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 Hipperholme.

Listed Buildings Near Hipperholme

Historic England records 35 listed buildings within about a mile of Hipperholme. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Whitehall Hotel - 0.12 km
West View - 0.2 km
South Edge House - 0.32 km
Hipperholme Grammar School - 0.38 km
Thornhill House - 0.39 km
3, 4,5 and 6, Brook Green - 0.41 km
16 and 17, Towngate - 0.42 km
Archway in South Garden Wall of Numbers 18-20 - 0.44 km
18-20, Towngate - 0.45 km
Ryders Court - 0.45 km
Barn to West of Numbers 19 and 20 - 0.47 km
The Travellers Public House - 0.48 km
Former Lightcliffe United Reformed Church - 0.6 km
Milestone Adjacent to Entrance to Hopewell House at Ngr Se 132257 - 0.67 km
Yew Trees - 0.7 km
113 and 115, Wakefield Road - 0.83 km
Harley Head Farmhouse - 0.88 km
Barn to North East of Lower Place Farmhouse - 0.92 km
Lower Place Farmhouse - 0.94 km
Bridge to Crow Nest Park - 0.94 km
Wynteredge Hall - 1.04 km
Mytholme Farmhouse - 1.06 km
Gate Piers to Church of St Matthew - 1.06 km
Numbers 1 and 2 Farm Cottages to East of Wynteredge Hall - 1.06 km

…and 11 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Hipperholme

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hipperholme:

Magna Via - 1.22 km

Hipperholme Today

Today Hipperholme lies within the administrative area of Calderdale, and the settlement recorded a population of 11,308 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Hipperholme on Wikipedia .