The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ingthorpe Grange, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ingthorpe Grange at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Ingthorpe Grange supported a recorded population of 12 villagers, 6 smallholders, 15 slaves, working 10 ploughs between them.

The survey records Ingthorpe Grange’s value at 4 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Ingthorpe Grange (1086)

Cattle: 32
Pigs: 24
Sheep: 287
Horses (cobs): 1
Meadow: 2 acres
Woodland: 50 acres

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ingthorpe Grange 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 Ingthorpe Grange.

Listed Buildings Near Ingthorpe Grange

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Ingthorpe Grange. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*