Lealholm appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

The Meaning of the Name

The name Lealholm is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word holmr, an island or dry ground in marsh. 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 island’.

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 Lealholm.

Listed Buildings Near Lealholm

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Lealholm. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St James the Greater - 0.34 km
Wesleyan Chapel - 0.5 km

Grade II

Drinking Fountain to North of Lealholm Bridge - 0.34 km
Lealholm War Memorial - 0.34 km
Lealholm Bridge - 0.36 km
Stepping Stones Antique Shop, Cottage Attached to Right and Outbuilding to Left - 0.38 km
Farm Building to East of Horse House Farmhouse; and Drinking Fountain - 0.52 km
Horse House Farmhouse - 0.54 km
Front Walls, Railings and Gates to Prospect House - 0.59 km
Prospect House - 0.61 km
Lealholm Hall - 0.7 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Lealholm

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Lealholm:

Lealholm Today

Today Lealholm lies within the administrative area of Glaisdale, and the settlement recorded a population of 383 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Lealholm on Wikipedia .