The settlement of Hunmanby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Torbar

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hunmanby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hunmanby.

Listed Buildings Near Hunmanby

Historic England records 31 listed buildings within about a mile of Hunmanby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of All Saints - 0.03 km
Hunmanby Hall - 0.22 km

Grade II

William Richardson Memorial Approximately 1 Metre East of All Saints Church - 0.01 km
Wrangham House - 0.04 km
3, Bridlington Street - 0.05 km
Coach House Approximately 3 Metres to North-east of Wrangham House - 0.06 km
White Swan Inn - 0.07 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk at Junction With Stonegate - 0.09 km
Mill Farmhouse - 0.09 km
Castle House Farmhouse and Brownridge Cottage - 0.09 km
Denmark House - 0.11 km
Telford House - 0.12 km
Hunmanby War Memorial - 0.12 km
Northgate House - 0.13 km
Market Cross - 0.13 km
Osgodby House - 0.14 km
Chestnut House - 0.14 km
Dovecote and attached stable to rear (east) of 10 Northgate - 0.14 km
12, Northgate - 0.15 km
Pontreve - 0.18 km
Stable Block Approximately 10 Metres North of Hunmanby Hall - 0.2 km
Bay View Farmhouse - 0.21 km
Prospect House - 0.21 km
Norcote - 0.25 km

…and 7 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Hunmanby

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hunmanby:

Hunmanby Castle motte and bailey - 0.17 km

Hunmanby Today

Today Hunmanby lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,215 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 Hunmanby on Wikipedia .