Hornsea in the Domesday Book (1086)

Hornsea is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

• Arnestorp
• Arram
• Barmston
• Beeford
• Bewholme
• Brandesburton
• Catfoss [Hall]
• Catwick
• Chenecol
• Chenucol
• Chenuthesholm
• Cleeton
• Dringhoe
• Dunnington

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hornsea 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 Hornsea.

Listed Buildings Near Hornsea

Historic England records 24 listed buildings within about a mile of Hornsea. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of Saint Nicholas - 0.54 km

Grade II*

• The White House - 0.45 km

Grade II

• Farrago and Washhouse to Right - 0.07 km
• Railway Station - 0.23 km
• Folly - 0.34 km
• United Reformed Church - 0.35 km
• Wayside Cross - 0.45 km
• Burns Farm Hornsea Museum - 0.45 km
• Ye Old Cottage Cafe - 0.46 km
• Stable Block to the White House - 0.46 km
• The Nook - 0.47 km
• Group of Seven Recumbent Grave Markers About 10 Metres West of the White House - 0.47 km
• Vicarage and Wing Walls - 0.48 km
• 3, Southgate - 0.52 km
• 65 and 66, Southgate - 0.52 km
• Cross in Churchyard of St Nicholas - 0.56 km
• 2, Market Place - 0.57 km
• Pike and Heron Public House - 0.59 km
• The Old Hall - 0.65 km
• Corner Cottage Sunset Cottage - 0.7 km
• 3, Eastgate - 0.74 km
• Cobble Wall, Pump, and Pump Turn - 0.74 km
• 20, Westgate - 0.8 km
• 32, Westgate - 0.9 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hornsea

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Hornsea:

• Moated site in Hall Garth Park - 0.57 km
• Medieval settlement of Southorpe and field system, north east of Southorpe Farm - 1.47 km

Hornsea Today

Today Hornsea lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,791 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 Hornsea on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Hornsea Burton - 1.0 km S
• Southorpe - 1.4 km SW
• Rolston - 2.2 km SE
• Wassand Hall - 3.2 km W
• Goxhill - 3.6 km SW
• Seaton - 4.1 km W