Kettlethorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

Kettlethorpe is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Cave

• Aughton
• Drewton
• Ellerton
• Everthorpe
• Foggathorpe
• Gribthorpe
• Hotham
• Laytham
• Melbourne
• Seaton [Ross]
• Thornton
• Yokefleet [Grange]
• [East] Cottingwith
• [High and Low] Hunsley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Kettlethorpe 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 Kettlethorpe.

Listed Buildings Near Kettlethorpe

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Kettlethorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Castle Farmhouse - 0.95 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Drewton - 1.0 km E
• North and South Newbald - 2.0 km N
• North Cave - 2.2 km SW
• Hotham - 2.2 km NW
• Everthorpe - 2.2 km SW
• South Cave - 2.2 km SE