The settlement of Kinsley is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Staincross

The Meaning of the Name

The name Kinsley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

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

Scheduled Monuments Near Kinsley

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Kinsley:

Kinsley moat and fishpond - 0.7 km

Kinsley Today

Today Kinsley lies within the administrative area of Hemsworth.

Read more about modern Kinsley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Hemsworth - 1.4 km SE
South Hiendley - 2.8 km SW
Ryhill - 3.0 km W
Brierley - 3.0 km S
Nostell Priory - 3.2 km N
Hessle - 3.6 km NE

Heritage Around Kinsley

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.

Hemsworth, Archbishop Holgate Almshouses, with the Chapel of The Holy Cross. (2002)
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

The rear of Nostell Priory across the lake. (2006)
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Kinsley, Our Lady of Graces, Roman Catholic Church (2001)
© Bill Henderson · 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.

Kinsley in the Domesday Book (1086)