Hunsingore in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hunsingore, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Hunsingore 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 Hunsingore.
Listed Buildings Near Hunsingore
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Hunsingore. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Michael - 0.79 km
Grade II
- Church of St John the Baptist - 0.27 km
- Lychgate to Church of St John the Baptist - 0.28 km
- Rose Cottage - 0.32 km
- Pigeon House - 0.41 km
- The Corn Mill on North Bank of the River Nidd - 0.49 km
- Cowthorpe Hall Farmhouse - 0.68 km
- Rose Cottage and Fair View Cottage - 1.06 km
- Huggins House - 1.1 km
- The Bridge Inn - 1.15 km
- Old Pinfold in Corner of Field Adjacent to West Side of Bridge Inn - 1.21 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hunsingore
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hunsingore:
Hunsingore Today
Today Hunsingore lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 148 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 Hunsingore on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Cowthorpe - 1.0 km S
- Hopperton - 3.0 km N
- Ingmanthorpe Hall - 3.0 km S
- Cattal - 3.2 km E
- Old Thornville Hall - 3.2 km E
- Kirk and North Deighton - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Hunsingore
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.
© Andrew Abbott · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Toby Speight · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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