Levisham in the Domesday Book (1086)
Levisham appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Appleton [le Moors]
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Barton [le Street]
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
The Meaning of the Name
The name Levisham 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 Levisham.
Listed Buildings Near Levisham
Historic England records 22 listed buildings within about a mile of Levisham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Mary - 0.58 km
- Church of Saint Giles - 0.85 km
Grade II
- Rose Cottage and Attached Outbuildings - 0.3 km
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.3 km
- Glebe Farmhouse and Attached Railings to Front - 0.3 km
- Lowstead Farmhouse - 0.32 km
- Farmbuilding Attached to Rear of Lowstead Farmhouse - 0.34 km
- Oak Crag - 0.67 km
- Village Pound Attached to West of Box Tree Farmbuildings - 0.75 km
- Farmbuilding Approximately One Metre to West of Box Tree Farmhouse - 0.76 km
- Box Tree Farmhouse and Box Tree Cottage - 0.78 km
- Opicana - 0.8 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.81 km
- Blacksmith’s Cottage Holmlea the Haven - 0.82 km
- Village Well - 0.83 km
- Ivy Cottage - 0.84 km
- Grange Farmhouse - 0.85 km
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.93 km
- Greystone House Greystones Cottage - 0.94 km
- West View Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Railings to Front - 1.0 km
- Cherry Tree Farmhouse - 1.03 km
- Mount Cottage, Attached Steps and Ramped Up Wall to Front; Attached Workshop - 1.07 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Levisham
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Levisham:
- Round barrow 400m north of Levisham Hall - 0.79 km
Levisham Today
Today Levisham lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 77 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 Levisham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Lockton - 1.0 km E
- Newton - 2.0 km W
- High Blandsby - 3.2 km S
- Low Dalby - 3.6 km SE
- Kingthorpe House - 5.0 km S
- Farmanby - 5.4 km S
Heritage Around Levisham
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.
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Phil Catterall · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Partridge · 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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