Honley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Honley, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Agbrigg
- Ackton
- Almondbury
- Austonley
- Bradley
- Cartworth
- Crigglestone
- Crofton
- Dalton
- Emley
- Farnley [Tyas]
- Flockton
- Fulstone
- Golcar
- Hepworth
The Meaning of the Name
The name Honley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Honley.
Listed Buildings Near Honley
Historic England records 99 listed buildings within about a mile of Honley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Mag Bridge - 0.07 km
- Early Butts - 0.12 km
- 6, Magdale - 0.12 km
- Virginia House - 0.12 km
- 17, Magdale - 0.17 km
- 21,23, Magdale - 0.23 km
- 66,68,70, Thirstin Road - 0.3 km
- Telephone Kiosk Outside no 31 - 0.31 km
- 35,37,39, Magdale - 0.34 km
- 41,43, Magdale - 0.36 km
- 49,51, Magdale - 0.38 km
- 28,30, Church Street - 0.39 km
- Hawthorn House - 0.39 km
- 2,3,4, France Fold - 0.4 km
- 53,55, Magdale - 0.4 km
- 12,16, Magdale - 0.42 km
- 57,59, Magdale - 0.42 km
- 3, St Marys Square - 0.43 km
- Honley House - 0.43 km
- 1,2, St Marys Square - 0.43 km
- 5, St Marys Square - 0.43 km
- 14, Magdale - 0.43 km
- Sundial House - 0.45 km
- Church of St Mary the Virgin - 0.46 km
…and 75 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Honley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Honley:
Honley Today
Today Honley lies within the administrative area of Holme Valley, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,897 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 Honley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- South Crosland - 2.0 km W
- Farnley Tyas - 3.0 km E
- Lockwood - 3.0 km N
- Meltham - 3.6 km SW
- Thurstonland - 3.6 km SE
- Huddersfield - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Honley
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.
© Humphrey Bolton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris Allen · 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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