Ingmanthorpe Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Ingmanthorpe Hall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, 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 name Ingmanthorpe Hall is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
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 Ingmanthorpe Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Ingmanthorpe Hall
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Ingmanthorpe Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Gate Piers and Gates Approximately 10 Metres East of Ingmanthorpe Hall - 0.46 km
- Ingmanthorpe Hall - 0.48 km
- Milepost Approximately 20 Metres to East of Drive to Swinnow Hill - 1.24 km
Ingmanthorpe Hall Today
Today Ingmanthorpe Hall lies within the administrative area of Kirk Deighton.
Read more about modern Ingmanthorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Cowthorpe - 2.0 km N
- Wetherby - 2.8 km SW
- Bickerton - 3.0 km E
- Hunsingore - 3.0 km N
- Kirk and North Deighton - 3.2 km W
- Walton - 3.6 km SE
Heritage Around Ingmanthorpe [Hall]
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.
© Betty Longbottom · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Betty Longbottom · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Firth · 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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