Luuetotholm in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Luuetotholm, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]
- Arnestorp
- Arram
- Barmston
- Beeford
- Bewholme
- Brandesburton
- Catfoss [Hall]
- Catwick
- Chenecol
- Chenucol
- Chenuthesholm
- Cleeton
- Dringhoe
- Dunnington
The Meaning of the Name
The name Luuetotholm is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word holmr, an island or dry ground in marsh. 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 island’.
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 Luuetotholm.
Listed Buildings Near Luuetotholm
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Luuetotholm. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Holy Trinity Church - 0.24 km
Grade II
- Corner House - 0.12 km
- 3, East Street - 0.12 km
- War Memorial in the Churchyard of Holy Trinity Church - 0.24 km
- Westfield - 0.29 km
- 27, High Stile - 0.46 km
- The New Inn - 0.48 km
- Causeway Bridge - 0.49 km
- 85, East Street - 0.57 km
- Aqueduct at Sandholme Farm - 0.69 km
- Leven House - 1.12 km
Luuetotholm Today
Today Luuetotholm lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,348 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 Leven on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Luuetotholm
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.
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Wright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Michelle Coldham · 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.
Location
53.8937°N, -0.3183°W · Holderness [North Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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