Low Caythorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Low Caythorpe, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burton
- Binnington
- Boythorpe
- Burton [Agnes]
- Butterwick
- Carnaby
- Fornetorp
- Ganton
- Gransmoor
- Haisthorpe
- Harpham
- Kilham
- Langtoft
- Lowthorpe
- Octon
The Meaning of the Name
The name Low Caythorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
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 Low Caythorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Low Caythorpe
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Low Caythorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Dairy at Thorpe Hall - 0.79 km
Grade II*
- Thorpe Hall - 0.71 km
Grade II
- Orangery at Thorpe Hall - 0.63 km
- Billiard Room at Thorpe Hall - 0.64 km
- Ice House at Thorpe Hall - 0.67 km
- Statue of Bacchus and Ariadne - 0.7 km
- Game Larder at Thorpe Hall - 0.76 km
- Bridge, Approximately 60 Metres South East of Stable Block at Thorpe Hall - 0.78 km
- Stable Block at Thorpe Hall - 0.82 km
- Bridge Approximately 500 Metres South West of Thorpe Hall - 0.99 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Low Caythorpe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Low Caythorpe:
- Low Caythorpe deserted medieval village, manorial complex and fishponds - 0.37 km
- Settlement site at Boynton Hall - 1.05 km
- South Side Mount round barrow, 350m north west of Woldgate reservoir - 1.25 km
- Sands Wood round barrow - 1.4 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thorpe Hall - 1.0 km N
- Boynton - 2.0 km E
- Boynton Hall - 2.0 km E
- Rudston - 2.0 km W
- Grindale - 3.2 km N
- Haisthorpe - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around [Low] Caythorpe
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.
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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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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