The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Little Fencote, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Little Fencote at 0.6 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Little Fencote supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 2 smallholders, 3 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Little Fencote’s value at 1 shilling in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Little Fencote (1086)

Woodland: 20 acres

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Little Fencote 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 Little Fencote.

Listed Buildings Near Little Fencote

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

Grade II