Huddersfield in the Domesday Book (1086)
Huddersfield appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, 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 Huddersfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Huddersfield.
Listed Buildings Near Huddersfield
Historic England records 480 listed buildings within about a mile of Huddersfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
Grade II
- 20, Queen Street - 0.04 km
- 22, Queen Street - 0.04 km
- 26, Queen Street - 0.04 km
- 28, Queen Street - 0.04 km
- 24, Queen Street - 0.04 km
- Crown Court - 0.05 km
- 30, Queen Street - 0.05 km
- 32, Queen Street - 0.05 km
- 16 and 18, Queen Street - 0.06 km
- Huddersfield Library and Art Gallery - 0.06 km
- 20, Zetland Street - 0.09 km
- 24, Zetland Street - 0.09 km
- 12 and 14, Queen Street - 0.09 km
- 29 Queensgate - 0.09 km
- 6 Wormalds Yard - 0.1 km
- 7 and 8 Wormalds Yard - 0.1 km
- 2 and 3 Goldthorpes Yard - 0.1 km
- 2 and 4, Queen Street - 0.1 km
- 6-10, Queen Street - 0.1 km
- 4 Wormalds Yard - 0.11 km
- 1 and 1A Goldthorpes Yard - 0.11 km
- 5 Wormalds Yard - 0.11 km
- 16 AND 16A, VICTORIA LANE (See details for further address information) - 0.11 km
…and 456 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Huddersfield
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Huddersfield:
- Turn Bridge, Quay Street - 0.5 km
Huddersfield Today
Today Huddersfield lies within the administrative area of Kirklees, and the settlement recorded a population of 162,949 at the 2011 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 Huddersfield on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Huddersfield
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
© Nigel Homer · 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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