Kirkham in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Kirkham, entered under the hundred of Acklam in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Acklam
- Acklam
- Barthorpe [Grange]
- Bugthorpe
- Burythorpe
- Eddlethorpe
- Firby
- Fridaythorpe
- Garrowby [Hall]
- Howsham
- Kirby [Underdale]
- Leavening
- Leppington
- Menethorpe
- Raisthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kirkham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village, while the first element appears to represent the church (ON kirkja). Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the church homestead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Kirkham.
Listed Buildings Near Kirkham
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirkham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Kirkham Priory - 0.71 km
Grade II
- Station House and Platform Cottage - 0.23 km
- Kirkham Hall - 0.48 km
- Mount Pleasant Farmhouse - 0.59 km
- Kirkham Manor Farmhouse - 0.63 km
- Cross Stump Approximately 10 Metres North of Kirkham Priory Gatehouse - 0.67 km
- Welburn Lodge - 0.7 km
- Kirkham Bridge - 0.71 km
- Railway Signal Box at Kirkham Abbey Station - 0.8 km
- Firby Hall - 0.87 km
- Pair of Gate Piers at Hardy Flatts - 1.03 km
- Crambeck Bridge - 1.03 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Kirkham
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Kirkham:
- Roman pottery kilns and associated features at Crambeck - 0.61 km
- Kirkham Priory Augustinian monastery: monastic precinct, three fishponds, and precinct boundary - 0.67 km
- Kirkham Bridge - 0.71 km
Kirkham Today
Today Kirkham lies within the administrative area of Westow.
Read more about modern Kirkham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Kirkham
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.
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris McLean · 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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