Kirk Hammerton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Kirk Hammerton 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 Kirk Hammerton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, 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’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Kirk Hammerton.
Listed Buildings Near Kirk Hammerton
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirk Hammerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St John the Baptist - 0.09 km
Grade II*
- Old Thornville - 1.24 km
Grade II
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.05 km
- Kirk Hammerton Hall - 0.11 km
- Keepers Cottage - 0.2 km
- Hammerton Station Signal Box Cabin - 0.54 km
- Gate Piers on North Side of Old Thornville - 1.23 km
- Statue of Diana in Garden to South of Old Thornville, Right - 1.24 km
- Statue of Apollo in Garden to South of Old Thornville, Left - 1.25 km
- Ha-ha to South of Old Thornville - 1.26 km
- Sundial and Pedestal in Garden to South of Old Thornville - 1.26 km
Kirk Hammerton Today
Today Kirk Hammerton lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 602 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 Kirk Hammerton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Cattal - 1.4 km SW
- Old Thornville Hall - 1.4 km SW
- Wilstrop Hall - 2.2 km SE
- Green Hammerton - 2.2 km NW
- Tockwith - 3.0 km S
- Whixley - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around [Kirk] Hammerton
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Martyn Gorman · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John S Turner · 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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