Manfield in the Domesday Book (1086)
Manfield is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Manfield is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country. 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 open land’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Manfield.
Listed Buildings Near Manfield
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Manfield. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of All Saints - 0.35 km
Grade II
- Cross Shaft and Base Approximately 10 Metres South of Tower of Church of All Saints - 0.37 km
- Manfield Grange - 0.43 km
- Manfield House - 0.81 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Manfield
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Manfield:
Manfield Today
Today Manfield lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 262 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 Manfield on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Aldbrough - 2.8 km SW
- Cliffe Hall - 2.8 km NW
- Cleasby - 3.0 km E
- Carlton - 3.2 km W
- Stapleton - 4.1 km E
- Newton Morrell - 4.1 km S
Heritage Around Manfield
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.
© David Hawgood · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Hawgood · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Antonia · 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
54.5161°N, -1.6524°W · Land of Count Alan 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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