Killerby Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Killerby Hall, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Killerby Hall is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.
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 Killerby Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Killerby Hall
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Killerby Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Pair of Outbuildings Approximately Five Metres to North of Oran House - 0.43 km
- Oran House - 0.43 km
- Former Laundry Approximately Ten Metres North West of Oran House - 0.46 km
- Barn With Stables and Oran Cottages Numbers One, Two and Four - 0.48 km
- Stable Block to Killerby Hall - 0.5 km
- Manor House - 0.98 km
- Manor Cottages - 1.06 km
- Building 54 (Watch Office With Tower) - 1.25 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Killerby Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Killerby Hall:
- World War II fighter pens and associated defences at former RAF Catterick, 120m south and 340m north east of Oran House - 0.36 km
- Castle Hills medieval motte and bailey castle, and 20th century airfield defences, 700m north east of Oran House - 0.6 km
- Bainesse Roman roadside settlement and Anglian cemetery - 1.56 km
Killerby Hall Today
Today Killerby Hall lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 24 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 Killerby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ellerton on Swale - 1.0 km N
- Catterick - 1.4 km NW
- East Appleton - 2.2 km SW
- Hackforth - 2.2 km SW
- Bolton upon Swale - 3.0 km N
- Kiplin - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Killerby [Hall]
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.
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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.
Location
54.3632°N, -1.6075°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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