Lissett is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Lissett 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 Lissett.

Listed Buildings Near Lissett

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

Grade I

Church of All Saints - 1.1 km

Grade II*

Old Hall - 1.0 km

Grade II

Church of St James - 0.45 km
Manor Farmhouse - 0.49 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Lissett

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

Medieval complex at Barmston Old Hall, including two moated sites, a pond, three fishponds and associated enclosures with part of a field system. - 1.03 km

Lissett Today

Today Lissett lies within the administrative area of Ulrome.

Read more about modern Lissett on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Barmston - 1.0 km E
Winkton - 1.4 km NE
Gransmoor - 2.2 km NW
Ulrome - 2.8 km SE
Fraisthorpe - 3.2 km N
Dringhoe - 3.2 km S

Heritage Around Lissett

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.

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.

Lissett in the Domesday Book (1086)