Kelbrook appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Kelbrook 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 Kelbrook.

Listed Buildings Near Kelbrook

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Kelbrook. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

12, High Fold - 0.28 km
Yellow Hall - 0.38 km
Stoops Farmhouse and Barn - 0.42 km
Middle Hague Farmhouse and Cottage - 0.98 km
War Memorial - 1.21 km
Lancashire Gill - 1.24 km

Kelbrook Today

Today Kelbrook lies within the administrative area of Kelbrook and Sough.

Read more about modern Kelbrook on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Earby - 2.0 km N
Barnoldswick - 3.6 km NW
Thornton in Craven - 4.0 km N
Bracewell - 5.6 km NW
Elslack - 5.8 km NE
Little Middop - 6.1 km W

Heritage Around Kelbrook

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.

Former Quaker Meeting House 1726-1989, Salterforth (2006)
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Cross Keys, Church Street, Barnoldswick (2007)
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Footbridge across Butts Beck, Barnoldswick (2007)
© Dr Neil Clifton · 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.

Kelbrook in the Domesday Book (1086)