Kennythorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Kennythorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scard in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Scard
- Birdsall
- Buckton [Holms]
- Burdale
- Duggleby
- Langton
- Linton
- Norton
- Rillington
- Scagglethorpe
- Scampston
- Settrington
- Sutton [Grange]
- Thorpe [Bassett]
- Towthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kennythorpe 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 Kennythorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Kennythorpe
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Kennythorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Thornthorpe Bridge - 0.63 km
- Thornthorpe Manor House - 0.68 km
- Eddlethorpe Kennels Farm Barn - 0.91 km
- The Rectory - 1.14 km
- Ivy Cottage - 1.2 km
- Church of Saint Andrew - 1.21 km
- Town Farm Barn Implement Shed - 1.21 km
- Town Farm Stables - 1.22 km
- Town Farmhouse - 1.25 km
- Green Farmhouse - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Kennythorpe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Kennythorpe:
- Hedon Howe tumulus - 0.15 km
- Roman site SW of Kennythorpe - 0.87 km
Kennythorpe Today
Today Kennythorpe lies within the administrative area of Burythorpe.
Read more about modern Kennythorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Eddlethorpe - 1.0 km W
- Thornthorpe - 1.0 km N
- Langton - 1.4 km NE
- Low Hutton - 2.2 km NW
- Menethorpe - 2.2 km NW
- Burythorpe - 2.2 km SE
Heritage Around Kennythorpe
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.
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© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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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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