Maltby in the Domesday Book (1086)

Maltby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

• Acklam
• Airy [Holme]
• Aislaby
• Arnodestorp
• Baldebi
• Barnaby
• Barwick
• Battersby
• Bergolbi
• Berguluesbi
• Blaten [Carr]
• Borrowby
• Breck
• Brotton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Maltby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

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 Maltby.

Listed Buildings Near Maltby

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Maltby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• White House - 0.2 km
• The Garth - 0.21 km
• Homefield Farmhouse - 0.27 km
• Maltby Farmhouse - 0.7 km
• Barn to North of Maltby Grange - 0.93 km
• Maltby Grange - 0.96 km
• Thornton Grange - 1.12 km
• Little Maltby Farmhouse - 1.25 km

Maltby Today

Today Maltby lies within the administrative area of Stockton-on-Tees, and the settlement recorded a population of 663 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 Maltby on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Thornton - 1.0 km E
• Stainsby Hall - 2.0 km N
• Hilton - 2.0 km S
• Stainton - 2.2 km NE
• Ingleby Hill - 2.2 km SW
• Castle Leavington - 3.0 km S