Little Ouseburn in the Domesday Book (1086)
Little Ouseburn 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 origin of the name Little Ouseburn 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 Ouseburn.
Listed Buildings Near Little Ouseburn
Historic England records 29 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Ouseburn. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.92 km
Grade II*
- Carriage Gates and Gate Piers, Pedestrian Gates, Screen Walls and Railings at New Lodge - 0.68 km
- Thompson Mausoleum approximately twenty metres south west of the Church of The Holy Trinity - 0.88 km
Grade II
- Village Farm - 0.19 km
- Broadlands Farmhouse - 0.25 km
- Garden Wall to South and East of Broadlands Farmhouse - 0.26 km
- Beech House and Attached Outbuildings - 0.28 km
- Manor Farm House - 0.39 km
- Farmbuilding approximately ten metres east of Manor Farm House - 0.41 km
- Wall Approximately Five Metres West of Sloethorne Farmhouse - 0.44 km
- Sloethorne Farmhouse - 0.46 km
- Foldyard Approximately Twelve Metres South West of Kirby Hall Farmhouse - 0.69 km
- New Lodge and Attached Rear Yard Wall - 0.7 km
- Kirby Hall Farmhouse - 0.72 km
- Farmbuildings Approximately Eighteen Metres South East of Kirby Hall Farmhouse - 0.75 km
- Boundary Stone - 0.77 km
- Moat Hall - 0.79 km
- Boundary Stone - 0.93 km
- Little Ouseburn Bridge - 0.98 km
- Old Lodge - 1.2 km
- Wingate Cottage - 1.21 km
- Garden Walls and Attached Hothouses Approximately Two Hundred Metres South of Kirby Hall - 1.21 km
- Yeoman’s Cottage - 1.22 km
- Remains of Former Kirby Hall, and Attached Gateway, Walls and Carriage Gate Piers - 1.24 km
…and 5 more listed structures in the area.
Little Ouseburn Today
Today Little Ouseburn lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 266 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 Ouseburn on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Great Ouseburn - 1.0 km N
- Elwicks - 1.0 km S
- Kirby Hall - 1.4 km NE
- Thorpe Hill - 1.4 km SE
- Branton Green - 2.0 km N
- Whixley - 2.0 km S
Heritage Around [Little] Ouseburn
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Murray-Rust · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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