Lackenby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Lackenby, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Lackenby 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 Lackenby.
Listed Buildings Near Lackenby
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Lackenby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Old Hall Farmhouse and Garden Wall - 0.13 km
Grade II
- Stable Range Adjoining South Side of Old Hall Farmhouse - 0.14 km
- Stables Byre Barn and Fold-yard, Circa 10 Metres West of Old Hall Farmhouse - 0.16 km
- Village Hall and Gatepiers - 0.63 km
- 9, Chapel Street - 0.72 km
- 11, Chapel Street - 0.72 km
- Grange Farmhouse and Farm Cottage - 1.02 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Lackenby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 8 lie within roughly a mile of Lackenby:
- Eston Nab hill fort, palisaded settlement and beacon - 1.22 km
- Bowl barrow 1.1km north-west of High Court Green - 1.37 km
- Bowl barrow 1.1km north-west of High Barnaby Farm - 1.37 km
- Bowl barrow 1km north-west of High Court Green - 1.44 km
- Bowl barrow on Eston Moor, 1.2km north-west of High Barnaby Farm - 1.48 km
- Bowl barrow on Eston Moor, 1.2km north-west of High Barnaby Farm - 1.49 km
- Bowl barrow on Eston Moor, 1.4km north-west of High Barnaby Farm - 1.55 km
- Three bowl barrows on Wilton Moor, 850m north-north-west of High Barnaby Farm - 1.6 km
Lackenby Today
Today Lackenby lies within the administrative area of Redcar and Cleveland.
Read more about modern Lackenby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Lackenby
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.
© Stephen McCulloch · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen McCulloch · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Rob Pollard · 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.
Found an inaccuracy? [email protected]