Little Kelk in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Little Kelk, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Torbar
- Argam
- Brigham
- Burton [Fleming]
- Elestolf
- Elmswell
- Estolf
- Folkton
- Fordon
- Foston [on the Wolds]
- Garton [on the Wolds]
- Gembling
- Hunmanby
- Ledemare
- Muston
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Little Kelk 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 Kelk.
Scheduled Monuments Near Little Kelk
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Little Kelk:
Little Kelk Today
Today Little Kelk lies within the administrative area of Kelk.
Read more about modern Little Kelk on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Great Kelk - 1.4 km SE
- Harpham - 2.0 km N
- Lowthorpe - 2.2 km NW
- Gembling - 2.2 km SE
- Gransmoor - 3.0 km E
- Ruston Parva - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around [Little] Kelk
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.
© nick macneill · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Phil Catterall · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Derek Hayden · 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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