The settlement of Mansergh is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Mansergh is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Mansergh.

Listed Buildings Near Mansergh

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Mansergh. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

The Durham Ox - 0.32 km
Milestone at Corner of Old Scotch Road - 0.51 km
Rigmaden School and School House - 0.65 km
Mansergh War Memorial - 0.67 km
Church of St Peter - 0.69 km
Barn at Sd 594 832 - 0.74 km

Mansergh Today

Today Mansergh lies within the administrative area of South Lakeland, and the settlement recorded a population of 135 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 Mansergh on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Kirkby Lonsdale - 3.6 km SE
Barbon - 4.0 km E
Lupton - 4.1 km W
Casterton - 4.2 km SE
Hutton Roof - 4.5 km SW
Preston Patrick - 5.1 km W

Heritage Around Mansergh

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.

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Mansergh in the Domesday Book (1086)