Leeds in the Domesday Book (1086)
Leeds appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Skyrack
- Adel
- Allerton [Bywater]
- Alwoodley
- Arthington
- Austhorpe
- Baildon
- Bardsey
- Barwick [in Elmet]
- Bichertun
- Bicherun
- Bingley
- Birkby [Hill]
- Bramhope
- Burden [Head]
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Leeds 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 Leeds.
Listed Buildings Near Leeds
Historic England records 372 listed buildings within about a mile of Leeds. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- City Markets - 0.16 km
- Parish Church of St Peter - 0.18 km
- Corn Exchange - 0.22 km
Grade II*
- First Leeds Cloth Hall - 0.16 km
- Waterloo House North East Range of White Cloth Hall With Assembly Rooms Over - 0.18 km
- Remains of North West Range of White Cloth Hall Including Entrance - 0.22 km
Grade II
- 46 and 48, New York Street - 0.05 km
- New York Street - 0.08 km
- St Jame’s Hall Westminster Buildings - 0.09 km
- No. 4 New York Street - 0.14 km
- New York Buildings - 0.14 km
- 1, Church Row - 0.16 km
- North Boundary Wall and Steps, North West Gate and Piers, War Memorial and East Bar Stone - 0.16 km
- Boundary Wall to West of Parish Church of St Peter With South West Gateway - 0.18 km
- 15 and 17, High Court Lane - 0.18 km
- 19, High Court Lane - 0.19 km
- 5 and 7, Crown Street - 0.19 km
- Gateway and Boundary Wall to East of Parish Church of St Peter - 0.2 km
- No. 110 Kirkgate - 0.21 km
- 50-56, VICAR LANE (See details for further address information) - 0.22 km
- Petrol Station - 0.22 km
- Railings Enclosing the Petrol Station - 0.22 km
- Fletland Mills - 0.23 km
- The General Eliott Public House - 0.24 km
…and 348 more listed structures in the area.
Leeds Today
Today Leeds lies within the administrative area of Leeds.
Read more about modern Steander on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Leeds
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.
© Mike Wallis · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Rich Tea · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Charles Rawding · 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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