Markenfield Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)

Markenfield Hall appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

• Addlethorpe
• Aismunderby
• Aldfield
• Allerton [Mauleverer]
• Arkendale
• Askwith
• Azerley
• Barrowby [Grange]
• Beckwith [House]
• Besthaim
• Bestham
• Bewerley
• Bilton
• Birstwith

The Meaning of the Name

The name Markenfield Hall 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 Markenfield Hall.

Listed Buildings Near Markenfield Hall

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Markenfield Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Markenfield Hall - 0.17 km

Grade II

• Farm Buildings to South of Markenfield Hall - 0.21 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Markenfield Hall

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Markenfield Hall:

• Markenfield Hall moated medieval fortified house with associated service buildings and park pale - 0.23 km

Markenfield Hall Today

Today Markenfield Hall lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 5 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Aismunderby - 1.4 km NE
• How Hill - 2.0 km W
• Markington - 2.0 km S
• Studley Roger - 3.0 km N
• Bishop Monkton - 3.2 km E
• Littlethorpe - 3.6 km NE