Leckby Palace in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Leckby Palace, entered under the hundred of Hallikeld in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Hallikeld

• Brampton [Hall]
• Caldeuuelle
• Cundall
• Dishforth
• Ellenthorpe [Hall]
• Givendale
• Hashundebi
• Holme
• Howgrave
• Hutton [Conyers]
• Kirby [Hill]
• Markington
• Milby
• Norton [Conyers]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Leckby Palace is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.

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 Leckby Palace.

Scheduled Monuments Near Leckby Palace

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

• Medieval moated site, fishponds and associated field system 125m south of Eldmire Cottage - 0.61 km
• Maiden Bower and Cock Lodge: a motte and bailey castle, moated site, windmill mound and associated linear outwork - 1.06 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Horebodebi - 1.4 km NE
• Horenbodebi - 1.4 km NE
• Crakehill - 1.4 km SE
• Asenby - 2.2 km NW
• Bergebi - 2.2 km NW
• Berghebi - 2.2 km NW