Marrick in the Domesday Book (1086)
Marrick appears in the Domesday Book of 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 origin of the name Marrick 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 Marrick.
Listed Buildings Near Marrick
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Marrick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Marrick Priory Farmhouse - 1.16 km
Grade II
- Former White Horse Inn - 0.23 km
- Upper Mill - 1.02 km
- Lower Mill - 1.04 km
- Church of St Andrew - 1.14 km
- Ellerton Priory - 1.15 km
- Ellerton Abbey - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Marrick
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Marrick:
- Marrick ore hearth lead smeltmill - 1.02 km
- Marrick Priory: a Benedictine nunnery and later parish church with fishponds, mill mound, ironworks, longhouse, trackways and an Iron-Age house platform - 1.13 km
- Marrick Cupola lead smeltmill, 160m east of Reels Head Farm - 1.29 km
- Ellerton Priory: a Cistercian nunnery including fishponds, water management system, mill, field systems and Ellerton medieval settlement - 1.33 km
Marrick Today
Today Marrick lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 117 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 Marrick on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ellerton Abbey - 1.0 km S
- Grinton - 3.0 km W
- Fremington - 3.2 km W
- Reeth - 4.1 km W
- Downholme - 4.1 km E
- Preston under Scar - 7.1 km S
Heritage Around Marrick
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.
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris Downer · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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
54.3818°N, -1.8845°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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