Leake in the Domesday Book (1086)
Leake is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Allerton
- Ainderby [Steeple]
- Appleton [Wiske]
- Arncliffe [Hall]
- Birkby
- Borrowby
- Brompton
- Cowesby
- Crosby [Grange]
- Dale [Town]
- Deighton
- Ellerbeck
- Foxton
- Girsby
- Hawnby
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Leake is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Leake.
Listed Buildings Near Leake
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Leake. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Mary - 0.32 km
Grade II*
- Leake Hall - 0.23 km
Grade II
Scheduled Monuments Near Leake
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Leake:
- Lime kilns 400m south west of Furlands - 0.19 km
Leake Today
Today Leake lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 6 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 Leake on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Borrowby - 1.4 km SW
- Landmoth - 2.2 km NW
- Nether Silton - 2.8 km NE
- Knayton - 3.0 km S
- Cowesby - 3.2 km E
- Crosby Grange - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Leake
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.
© David Lally · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen Horncastle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · 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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