Kirby Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
Kirby Hall appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kirby 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 Kirby Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Kirby Hall
Historic England records 42 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirby Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.5 km
Grade II*
- Thompson Mausoleum approximately twenty metres south west of the Church of The Holy Trinity - 0.53 km
- Church of St Mary - 0.75 km
- Carriage Gates and Gate Piers, Pedestrian Gates, Screen Walls and Railings at New Lodge - 0.81 km
Grade II
- Ice House Approximately Eighty Metres North-east of Old Lodge - 0.14 km
- Old Lodge - 0.22 km
- Little Ouseburn Bridge - 0.44 km
- Outbuilding Approximately One Hundred and Ten Metres North of Kirby Hall - 0.47 km
- Barn Approximately Eighty Metres North of Kirby Hall - 0.47 km
- Stable Buildings Approximately Twenty Five Metres North West of Kirby Hall - 0.5 km
- Wingate Cottage - 0.54 km
- Kirby Hall - 0.56 km
- Yeoman’s Cottage - 0.58 km
- Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers - 0.58 km
- Moat Hall - 0.63 km
- Rosecroft and Attached Garden Wall, Gate and Railings - 0.68 km
- Church Hill Cottage - 0.71 km
- Garden Wall Approximately Five Metres North West of Church Hill Farm House - 0.73 km
- Church Hill Farm House - 0.73 km
- Cedar Croft - 0.75 km
- St.Mary’s Churchyard walls and cross - 0.77 km
- New Lodge and Attached Rear Yard Wall - 0.79 km
- Garden Walls and Attached Hothouses Approximately Two Hundred Metres South of Kirby Hall - 0.82 km
- Prospect Farm House - 0.84 km
…and 18 more listed structures in the area.
Kirby Hall Today
Today Kirby Hall lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 17 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 Kirby Hall on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Great Ouseburn - 1.0 km W
- Little Ouseburn - 1.4 km SW
- Branton Green - 1.4 km NW
- Thorpe Hill - 2.0 km S
- Aldwark - 2.2 km NE
- Elwicks - 2.2 km SW
Heritage Around Kirby [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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© 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.
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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