Kirby Hill in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Kirby Hill, entered under the hundred of Hallikeld in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Hallikeld
- Brampton [Hall]
- Caldeuuelle
- Cundall
- Dishforth
- Ellenthorpe [Hall]
- Givendale
- Hashundebi
- Holme
- Howgrave
- Hutton [Conyers]
- Leckby [Palace]
- Markington
- Milby
- Norton [Conyers]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kirby Hill 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 Hill.
Listed Buildings Near Kirby Hill
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirby Hill. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of All Saints - 0.31 km
Grade II
- Vicarage With Carriage House, Stable and Outbuildings in Attached Walled Yard - 0.43 km
- Pond House - 0.64 km
- Milestone Approximately 10 Metres South of Blue Bell Public House - 0.75 km
- Station House - 1.19 km
- Maltings and Kilns of Warwick’s Anchor Brewery - 1.29 km
Kirby Hill Today
Today Kirby Hill lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 460 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 Hill on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Langthorpe - 1.4 km SW
- Milby - 1.4 km SE
- Ellenthorpe Hall - 2.2 km SE
- Aldborough - 2.2 km SE
- Caldeuuelle - 2.8 km NW
- Humburton - 3.0 km E
Heritage Around Kirby [Hill]
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.
© Nick W · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Toby Speight · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · 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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