The settlement of Horenbodebi is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Horenbodebi at 4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Horenbodebi supported a recorded population of 13 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 13 ploughs between them.

The survey records Horenbodebi’s value at 11.25 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

1 of 2 manors within Horenbodebi are recorded as waste in 1086, with the remainder still productive. This partial devastation suggests the settlement was caught in the path of the Harrying of the North but not entirely destroyed - or that recovery had begun in some holdings by the time of the survey.

The survey lists 2 manors at Horenbodebi under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Horenbodebi (1086)

Mills: 1 mill

Other Settlements in Yarlestre

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Horenbodebi 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 Horenbodebi.

Listed Buildings Near Horenbodebi

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Horenbodebi. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*