Inglethwaite in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Inglethwaite, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

• Aldwark
• Alne
• Barnby [House]
• Barton [le Willows]
• Beningbrough
• Bossall
• Brafferton
• Brandsby
• Bulmer
• Buttercrambe
• Carlton [Farm]
• Claxton
• Coneysthorpe
• Corburn

The Meaning of the Name

The name Inglethwaite is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þveit, a clearing or meadow. 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 clearing’.

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 Inglethwaite.

Listed Buildings Near Inglethwaite

Historic England records 48 listed buildings within about a mile of Inglethwaite. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• 135, Long Street - 0.22 km
• Crawford House - 0.22 km
• 137 and 139, Long Street - 0.23 km
• 141 and 143, Long Street - 0.24 km
• Milestone Outside Number 104 - 0.25 km
• 83, 85 & 87, Long Street - 0.25 km
• Longley House - 0.25 km
• 81, Long Street - 0.26 km
• The New Inn - 0.27 km
• 56-58, Long Street - 0.27 km
• Church of St John the Evangelist (Roman Catholic Church) - 0.3 km
• 30 Long Street and former Bay House Inn - 0.33 km
• Windross House - 0.37 km
• Orchard House and Prospect House - 0.37 km
• Rowntree House - 0.37 km
• Rocliffe House - 0.38 km
• Former Shop on the Corner of Market Place and Windross Square - 0.39 km
• Croft House - 0.39 km
• Three Storey Building on the South Side of Market Place - 0.4 km
• Normandene and Driffield House - 0.41 km
• Scaife House - 0.41 km
• The Old Vicarage - 0.43 km
• 190, 192 & 194, Long Street - 0.45 km
• The Commercial Public House - 0.46 km

…and 24 more listed structures in the area.

Inglethwaite Today

Today Inglethwaite lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,306 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 Easingwold on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Easingwold - 0.0 km N
• Crayke - 4.1 km E
• Raskelf - 4.1 km W
• Alne - 5.0 km SW
• Waruelestorp - 5.1 km S
• Oulston - 5.4 km N