Lastingham in the Domesday Book (1086)
Lastingham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Appleton [le Moors]
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Barton [le Street]
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
The Meaning of the Name
The name Lastingham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Lastingham.
Listed Buildings Near Lastingham
Historic England records 17 listed buildings within about a mile of Lastingham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Mary - 0.2 km
Grade II
- Vicarage - 0.12 km
- Headstone Approximately 10 Metres South East of St Mary’s Church - 0.22 km
- The Old Mill - 0.25 km
- Stable Block Attached to North East of the Old Mill - 0.26 km
- St Cedd’s Well - 0.31 km
- St Cedds House - 0.33 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.35 km
- St Chad’s Well - 0.36 km
- St Ovins Well - 0.36 km
- Jackson’s Bridge - 0.37 km
- Mount Pleasant Farmhouse - 0.37 km
- Home Farmhouse - 0.38 km
- Victoria Cross - 0.44 km
- Woodmans Cottage - 0.6 km
- Hill Top Farmhouse - 0.64 km
- Pound - 0.67 km
Lastingham Today
Today Lastingham lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 93 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 Lastingham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Baschebi - 0.0 km N
- Baschesbi - 0.0 km N
- Spaunton - 1.0 km S
- Hutton le Hole - 2.0 km W
- Appleton le Moors - 2.2 km SE
- Cropton - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Lastingham
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.
© Colin Grice · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Grice · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · 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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