Kilham in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Burton

• Binnington
• Boythorpe
• Burton [Agnes]
• Butterwick
• Carnaby
• Fornetorp
• Ganton
• Gransmoor
• Haisthorpe
• Harpham
• Langtoft
• Lowthorpe
• Octon
• Rudston

The Meaning of the Name

The name Kilham 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 Kilham.

Listed Buildings Near Kilham

Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Kilham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of All Saints - 0.2 km

Grade II

• Eastgate House - 0.08 km
• Clackna Farmhouse - 0.08 km
• Hall Farmhouse - 0.1 km
• Orchard House - 0.15 km
• Bull Ring - 0.17 km
• The Saddlers - 0.2 km
• Kilham War Memorial - 0.22 km
• The Cottage - 0.26 km
• Rutland House - 0.27 km
• K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.27 km
• The Elms - 0.38 km
• Belgrave Lodge and Wing Walls - 0.44 km
• Manor Lodge - 0.49 km
• High Farmhouse - 0.67 km

Kilham Today

Today Kilham lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,069 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 Kilham on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Pockthorpe - 2.2 km SW
• Ruston Parva - 3.0 km S
• Burton Agnes - 4.1 km E
• Lowthorpe - 4.1 km S
• Rudston - 4.2 km NE
• Harpham - 4.2 km SE