Huggate is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Warter in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Warter

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Huggate 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 Huggate.

Listed Buildings Near Huggate

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

Grade I

Church of St. Mary - 0.38 km

Grade II

Huggate War Memorial - 0.38 km
The Manor House - 0.45 km
Cross Base at Glebe Farm - 1.2 km
Boundary Stone at Ngr Se 883542 - 1.26 km

Huggate Today

Today Huggate lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 313 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 Huggate on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Swinden - 2.2 km SW
Greenwick - 3.2 km W
Fridaythorpe - 4.1 km N
Warter - 5.4 km SW
North Dalton - 5.8 km SE
Hawold - 6.1 km W

Heritage Around Huggate

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.

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.

Huggate in the Domesday Book (1086)