Ledsham in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Ledsham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Barkston
- Barkston
- Barlow
- Birkin
- Bramham
- Brayton
- Burton [Hall]
- Camblesforth
- Carlton
- Clifford
- Drax
- Fairburn
- Grimston [Grange]
- Hambleton
- Hazelwood [Castle]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Ledsham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead 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 homestead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Ledsham.
Listed Buildings Near Ledsham
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Ledsham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of All Saints - 0.31 km
Grade II
- Hill Top Farmhouse - 0.26 km
- Manor House Farmhouse - 0.26 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Chequers Inn - 0.3 km
- The Orphanage With Attached Garden Wall and Gatepiers - 0.33 km
- Numbers 1-11 Sir John Lewis’s Cottages - 0.35 km
- School House - 0.36 km
- Old School - 0.38 km
- The Old Vicarage With Stables at West End of Rear Courtyard - 0.65 km
- Walled Garden With Ha-ha Approximately 20 Metres North East of the Old Vicarage - 0.68 km
Ledsham Today
Today Ledsham lies within the administrative area of Leeds, and the settlement recorded a population of 167 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 Ledsham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ledston - 2.2 km SW
- Newton Wallis - 2.2 km SW
- Fairburn - 2.8 km SE
- Wheldale - 3.0 km S
- Water Fryston - 3.2 km S
- Kippax - 4.1 km W
Heritage Around Ledsham
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 Pickersgill · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Pickersgill · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Readman · 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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