Kettlethorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Dic

• Aislaby
• Allerston
• Appleton [le Moors]
• Aschelesmersc
• Aschilesmares
• Barton [le Street]
• Baschebi
• Baschesbi
• Brompton
• Burniston
• Burton [Dale]
• Cawthorn
• Cayton
• Chigogemers

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 74 listed buildings 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*

• Church of All Saints - 0.41 km
• The Hall - 0.42 km

Grade II

• Millhouse - 0.07 km
• Wall, Gate and Railings Approximately 4 Metres to West of Brook House - 0.24 km
• Brook House - 0.25 km
• Cottage Attached to Left of the Little Cottage - 0.3 km
• Manor Farmhouse - 0.31 km
• Beck Hall - 0.31 km
• Beck Isle Cottage the Thatched Cottage - 0.33 km
• Whitbygate House - 0.36 km
• Brook Farmhouse - 0.38 km
• Grammar School - 0.38 km
• Thornton Bridge - 0.39 km
• Wall Approximately 1.25 Metres to North of the Riding Stables - 0.39 km
• Lady Lumley’s Almshouses - 0.4 km
• Gate Piers and Attached Walls Approximately 40 Metres to North of the Hall - 0.4 km
• Rockingham House - 0.41 km
• The Riding Stables - 0.41 km
• School House - 0.42 km
• Gateways - 0.42 km
• 6, Chestnut Avenue - 0.42 km
• Comber House - 0.44 km
• 3 and 5A , Whitbygate - 0.45 km
• The former Gift Box and Baldersons Welcome Café and Bakery - 0.46 km

…and 50 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Kettlethorpe

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 5 lie within roughly a mile of Kettlethorpe:

• Standing cross 180m north of Hall Farm - 0.49 km
• Roxby Hill manorial complex and associated ridge and furrow earthworks - 1.06 km
• Round barrow 520m north west of St Hilda’s Church, Ellerburn - 1.08 km
• Prehistoric linear boundary in Ellerburn Wood, 370m north west of St Hilda’s Church - 1.11 km
• Round barrow 650m north west of St Hilda’s Church, Ellerburn - 1.16 km

Kettlethorpe Today

Today Kettlethorpe records a population of 1,759 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Thornton-le-Dale on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Chigogemers - 0.0 km N
• Chigomersc - 0.0 km N
• Ghigogesmersc - 0.0 km N
• Thornton Dale - 0.0 km N
• Ellerburn - 1.4 km NE
• Roxby Hill - 1.4 km SW