Lowthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
Lowthorpe is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, 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
- Octon
- Rudston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Lowthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead, while the first element appears to represent the lower. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the lower 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 Lowthorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Lowthorpe
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Lowthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Martin - 0.44 km
- Cross Approximately One Metre East of East Wall of Church of St Martin - 0.46 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Lowthorpe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Lowthorpe:
- St Martin’s collegiate church and medieval standing cross, Lowthorpe - 0.45 km
- Bowl barrow on Fox Hill - 1.19 km
Lowthorpe Today
Today Lowthorpe lies within the administrative area of Harpham.
Read more about modern Lowthorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ruston Parva - 1.4 km NW
- Harpham - 2.2 km NE
- Little Kelk - 2.2 km SE
- Nafferton - 2.8 km SW
- Great Kelk - 3.6 km SE
- Kilham - 4.1 km N
Heritage Around Lowthorpe
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.
© Phil Catterall · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© nick macneill · 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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