Kelfield in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Kelfield is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Pocklington
- Allerthorpe
- Barmby [Moor]
- Belthorpe
- Bielby
- Bolton
- Burnby
- Chetelstorp
- Deighton
- Elvington
- Escrick
- Everingham
- Fangfoss
- Gowthorpe
- Greenwick
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kelfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Kelfield.
Listed Buildings Near Kelfield
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Kelfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Corner Farmhouse - 0.08 km
- Village Farmhouse - 0.4 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Kelfield
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Kelfield:
Kelfield Today
Today Kelfield lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 413 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 Kelfield on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Stillingfleet - 2.0 km N
- Riccall - 2.2 km SE
- Acaster Selby - 2.8 km NW
- Ryther - 4.1 km W
- Chetelstorp - 5.0 km NE
- Moreby Hall - 5.0 km N
Heritage Around Kelfield
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.
© Graham Hermon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sam Kelly · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bob Cantwell · 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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