Hollym appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hollym 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 Hollym.

Listed Buildings Near Hollym

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Hollym. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Church of St Nicholas - 0.27 km
Pinfold - 0.29 km
Gravestone Approximately 20 Metres South-west of Church of St Nicholas - 0.31 km

Hollym Today

Today Hollym lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 520 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 Hollym on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Withernsea - 2.0 km N
Holmpton - 2.8 km SE
Owthorne - 3.0 km N
Redmere - 3.2 km N
Rysome Garth - 3.6 km SE
Welwick - 4.0 km S

Heritage Around Hollym

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.

St. Nicholas Church & the wreck of the billy boy (2006)
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Hollym (2005)
© Stephen Horncastle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Hollym, St Nicholas's Church (2004)
© Bill Henderson · 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.

Hollym in the Domesday Book (1086)