Levens in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Levens, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Levens 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 Levens.
Listed Buildings Near Levens
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Levens. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Underhill House With Barn and Pigsties Adjoining to West - 0.44 km
- Heaves Farmhouse and Attached Barn to South - 0.62 km
- Church of St John the Evangelist - 0.71 km
- Levens War Memorial - 0.71 km
- Limekiln - 1.05 km
- Heaves Hotel - 1.15 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Levens
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Levens:
Levens Today
Today Levens lies within the administrative area of Westmorland and Furness, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,233 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 Levens on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Hincaster - 2.8 km SE
- Heversham Head - 3.6 km SE
- Helsington - 3.6 km NE
- Stainton - 4.1 km E
- Bothelford - 4.2 km NE
- Preston Richard - 5.4 km E
Heritage Around Levens
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Salmon · 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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