Lothersdale in the Domesday Book (1086)
Lothersdale appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Craven
- Addingham
- Airton
- Anley
- Appletreewick
- Arncliffe
- Arnford
- Barnoldswick
- Bashall [Eaves]
- Battersby [Barn]
- Beamsley
- Birkby [Hall]
- Bogeuurde
- Bolton [Abbey]
- Bolton [by Bowland]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Lothersdale is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word dalr, a valley. 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 valley’.
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 Lothersdale.
Listed Buildings Near Lothersdale
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Lothersdale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Stone Gappe - 0.34 km
- Dale End Mill - 0.77 km
Grade II
- Christ Church - 0.56 km
- Woodhead Farmhouse - 0.62 km
- Over House Farmhouse - 0.78 km
- Stansfield House - 0.78 km
- Norwood Farmhouse - 0.82 km
- Quaker House - 0.91 km
- Stott Fold Farmhouse - 0.98 km
- Former Inn Building, Now Outbuilding to Stott Fold Farm - 1.02 km
- Chapel House - 1.04 km
- Old Carr Head Farmhouse - 1.25 km
Lothersdale Today
Today Lothersdale lies within the administrative area of Craven, and the settlement recorded a population of 560 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 Lothersdale on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Lothersdale
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.
© Dr Neil Clifton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Betty Longbottom · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Betty Longbottom · 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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