Keyingham in the Domesday Book (1086)

Keyingham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

• Andrebi
• Burstwick
• Camerton [Hall]
• Dimlington
• Easington
• Grimston
• Halsham
• Hilston
• Hollym
• Holmpton
• Kilnsea
• Monkwith
• Newton [Garth]
• Nuthill

The Meaning of the Name

The name Keyingham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village. 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 homestead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Keyingham.

Listed Buildings Near Keyingham

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Keyingham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Nicholas - 0.1 km

Grade II

• The Old Vicarage - 0.06 km
• Base of St Philip’s Cross Approximately 10 Centimetres East of Ebor House - 0.13 km
• Windmill Tower Approximately 20 Metres South West of Mill House - 0.26 km
• Windmill Tower at Mill Nurseries - 0.9 km

Keyingham Today

Today Keyingham lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,376 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 Keyingham on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Ottringham - 2.2 km SE
• Totleys Farm - 2.2 km NW
• Burstwick - 2.8 km NW
• Halsham - 3.2 km E
• Camerton Hall - 3.2 km W
• Skeckling - 3.6 km NW