Hoyland Swaine in the Domesday Book (1086)

Hoyland Swaine appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Staincross

• Adlingfleet
• Barnby [Hall]
• Barnsley
• Barugh
• Brierley
• Carlton
• Cawthorne
• Chevet
• Clactone
• Clayton [West]
• Darton
• Dodworth
• Hemsworth
• Hunshelf [Hall]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Hoyland Swaine 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 Hoyland Swaine.

Listed Buildings Near Hoyland Swaine

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Hoyland Swaine. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Hoyland Swain Outbuilding Range in Garden of Number 355 - 0.31 km
• Nook Farmhouse - 0.48 km
• Milestone Approximately 200 Metres East of Roundabout at Junction With A629 at Se 259043 - 0.61 km
• Barn, immediately west of Pinfold Farmhouse - 0.67 km
• Church of St John the Evangelist - 0.98 km

Hoyland Swaine Today

Today Hoyland Swaine lies within the administrative area of Penistone, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,038 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 Hoylandswaine on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Penistone - 2.2 km SW
• Clactone - 2.2 km SE
• Oxspring - 2.2 km SE
• Roughbirchworth - 3.0 km S
• Silkstone - 3.2 km E
• Thurlstone - 3.2 km W