The settlement of Langthorpe Hall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

At the time of the survey, Langthorpe Hall supported a recorded population of 10 villagers, 6 smallholders, working 5 ploughs between them.

Resources Recorded at Langthorpe Hall (1086)

Meadow: 5 acres
Woodland: 4 * 2 leagues

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Langthorpe Hall is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.

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 Langthorpe Hall.

Listed Buildings Near Langthorpe Hall

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Langthorpe Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II