Little Busby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Little Busby, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Little Busby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead 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 farmstead’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Little Busby.
Listed Buildings Near Little Busby
Historic England records 22 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Busby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- The Old Nursery Wing at Busby Hall - 0.37 km
- Busby Hall - 0.39 km
- Walled Garden to South East of Busby Hall - 0.44 km
Grade II
- Stable Range to North of Busby Hall - 0.32 km
- The Old Dairy at Busby - 0.34 km
- Hall Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.65 km
- The Old Vicarage - 0.7 km
- The Elms - 0.77 km
- Carlton House - 0.78 km
- Carlton House Cottage - 0.78 km
- Primrose Cottage Rose Cottage - 0.79 km
- Manor Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached - 0.8 km
- Beech Cottage, Beech House and Beech View - 0.8 km
- The Watson Scout Centre - 0.82 km
- Yard Wall and Gates to Left of Manor House - 0.84 km
- Forecourt and Terrace Walls, Gates and Gate Piers to Manor House - 0.84 km
- Manor House - 0.86 km
- Numbers 1-3 Manor Cottages and Number 4 Alma Lodge - 0.88 km
- Holly Lodge - 0.89 km
- Cross Shaft 3 Metres South of Church of St Botolph - 0.92 km
- Church of St Botolph - 0.93 km
- 1-4, West Row Cottages - 1.22 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Little Busby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Little Busby:
- Round barrow 350m west of Green Bank - 1.41 km
- Round barrow 200m south of Green Bank - 1.57 km
Little Busby Today
Today Little Busby lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 21 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 Little Busby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Carlton - 1.0 km W
- Blaten Carr - 1.4 km NE
- Great Busby - 1.4 km NE
- Dromonby Hall - 2.2 km NE
- Faceby - 2.2 km SW
- Kirkby - 2.8 km NE
Heritage Around [Little] Busby
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen McCulloch · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Carol Rose · 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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