The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Little Hatfield, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Little Hatfield at 0.9 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Little Hatfield supported a recorded population of 11 villagers, 3 freemanmen, working 9 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Little Hatfield’s value at 4 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Resources Recorded at Little Hatfield (1086)

Churches: 1
Meadow: 12 acres

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Little Hatfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Little Hatfield.

Listed Buildings Near Little Hatfield

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Little Hatfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II