Marderby Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Marderby Hall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Yarlestre
- Arden [Hall]
- Asenby
- Bagby
- Baxby
- Bergebi
- Berghebi
- Bernebi
- Boltby
- Breckenbrough
- Carlton [Husthwaite]
- Carlton [Miniott]
- Catton
- Coxwold
- Crakehill
The Meaning of the Name
The name Marderby Hall 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 Marderby Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Marderby Hall
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Marderby Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Felix - 1.29 km
Grade II
- Marderby Grange - 0.73 km
- Kelmire Grange Farmhouse - 1.16 km
- Felixkirk School - 1.2 km
- High Anson House - 1.2 km
- Richmond House - 1.22 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Marderby Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Marderby Hall:
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Felixkirk - 1.0 km N
- Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe - 2.2 km SE
- Hundulfthorpe Farm - 2.8 km NW
- Bagby - 3.0 km S
- Ravensthorpe Manor - 3.6 km NE
- Sowerby - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Marderby [Hall]
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.
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Frank Glover · 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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