Laysthorpe Lodge in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Laysthorpe Lodge is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Maneshou

• Amotherby
• Ampleforth
• Appleton [le Street]
• Beadlam
• Brawby
• Broughton
• Cawton
• Coulton
• Fadmoor
• Fryton
• Gillamoor
• Gilling [East]
• Griff [Farm]
• Grimston

The Meaning of the Name

The name Laysthorpe Lodge 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 Laysthorpe Lodge.

Listed Buildings Near Laysthorpe Lodge

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Laysthorpe Lodge. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Milepost Approximately 350 Metres North of Birch House - 0.74 km
• Milepost Approximately 400 Metres East of Stonegrave Lodge - 1.08 km
• East Newton Hall Barn and Barn Approximately 10 Metres to Rear - 1.2 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Oswaldkirk - 1.0 km W
• East Newton - 1.4 km NE
• West Newton Grange - 1.4 km NE
• Stonegrave - 2.2 km SE
• Cawton - 2.2 km SE
• Gilling East - 2.8 km SW