Holme upon Spalding Moor in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Holme upon Spalding Moor, entered under the hundred of Weighton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Weighton
- Cleaving [Grange]
- Easthorpe
- Goodmanham
- Harswell
- Houghton
- Kipling Cotes
- Londesborough
- Sancton
- Shipton[thorpe]
- Torp
- Torpi
- Towthorpe
- [Bishop] Burton
- [Market] Weighton
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Holme upon Spalding Moor 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 Holme upon Spalding Moor.
Listed Buildings Near Holme upon Spalding Moor
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Holme upon Spalding Moor. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of All Saints - 0.69 km
Grade II*
- Holme Hall - 1.02 km
Grade II
- The Hollies - 1.18 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Holme upon Spalding Moor
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Holme upon Spalding Moor:
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Harswell - 2.0 km N
- Everingham - 4.5 km NW
- Seaton Ross - 5.0 km NW
- North Cliffe - 5.1 km E
- South Cliffe - 5.4 km SE
- Market Weighton - 5.8 km NE
Heritage Around Holme [upon Spalding Moor]
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.
© Ashley Lightfoot · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger Gilbertson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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