Kirkby Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
Kirkby Hall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, 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 Kirkby Hall is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent the church (ON kirkja). Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the church 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 Kirkby Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Kirkby Hall
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirkby Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Kirkby Fleetham Hall - 0.5 km
- Church of St Mary - 0.54 km
Grade II
- Gate Piers Approximately 500 Metres to South West of Kirkby Fleetham Hall - 0.65 km
- North Lowfield Farmhouse - 0.78 km
- Lancaster House and Attached Outbuildings - 0.94 km
- The Vicarage - 0.97 km
- Friars Garth - 1.01 km
- Langton Farmhouse - 1.15 km
- Hook Car Hill Farmhouse - 1.22 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Kirkby Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Kirkby Hall:
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Kirkby Fleetham - 1.0 km S
- Great Langton - 1.4 km NE
- Little Langton - 2.0 km E
- Kiplin - 2.0 km N
- Great Fencote - 2.0 km S
- Little Fencote - 2.0 km S
Heritage Around Kirkby [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.
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Nick W · 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
54.3541°N, -1.5614°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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