Little Braham in the Domesday Book (1086)

Little Braham is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

• Addlethorpe
• Aismunderby
• Aldfield
• Allerton [Mauleverer]
• Arkendale
• Askwith
• Azerley
• Barrowby [Grange]
• Beckwith [House]
• Besthaim
• Bestham
• Bewerley
• Bilton
• Birstwith

The Meaning of the Name

The name Little Braham 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 Little Braham.

Listed Buildings Near Little Braham

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Braham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Stables at Aketon Close - 0.71 km
• Aketon Close - 0.74 km
• K6 - 0.9 km
• Stile and 5 Metre Length of Walling Approximately 30 Metres North of Plompton Square - 1.01 km
• West and East Lodges to Plompton Hall With Gate Piers - 1.01 km
• Packhorse Bridge Approximately 1 Metre to West of Old Corn Mill - 1.13 km
• Dam at South End of Lake - 1.14 km
• Boathouse on East Side of Lake - 1.26 km
• Pound - 1.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Little Braham

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

• Spofforth Castle magnates’ residence - 1.43 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Great Braham - 0.0 km N
• Caldeuuelle - 1.4 km SE
• Cradeuuelle - 1.4 km SE
• Spofforth - 1.4 km SE
• Plompton Hall - 2.0 km N
• Newsome Farm - 2.2 km SE