Leconfield in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Leconfield, entered under the hundred of Sneculfcros in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Sneculfcros

• Aike
• Beswick
• Beverley
• Bracken
• Dunnington
• Etton
• Gardham
• Grimston
• Holme [on the Wolds]
• Ianulfestorp
• Kilnwick
• Lockington
• Middleton [on the Wolds]
• Molescroft

The Meaning of the Name

The name Leconfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Leconfield.

Listed Buildings Near Leconfield

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Leconfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Catherine - 0.29 km

Grade II

• 1, Arram Road - 0.15 km
• The Manor House - 0.24 km
• Cowthorpe - 0.3 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Leconfield

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Leconfield:

• Moated site of Leconfield Castle - 0.5 km

Leconfield Today

Today Leconfield lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,410 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 Leconfield on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Neuson - 0.0 km N
• Raventhorpe - 1.4 km SW
• Persene - 2.0 km N
• Scorborough - 2.0 km N
• Cherry Burton - 2.8 km SW
• Etton - 3.0 km W