Meaux in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Meaux, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Meaux at 95 carucates of taxable land.
The survey records Meaux’s value at 0d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]
- Aldbrough
- Benningholme [Hall]
- Bewick [Hall]
- Bilton
- Burton [Constable]
- Burton [Pidsea]
- Conis[ton]
- Danthorpe
- Dowthorpe [Hall]
- Drypool
- Ellerby
- Elstronwick
- Eske
- Etherdwick
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Meaux 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 Meaux.
Listed Buildings Near Meaux
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Meaux. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Meaux Abbey Farm - 0.05 km
- Abbey Cottage, Tippett Lane - 1.25 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Meaux
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Meaux:
- Medieval moated tile kiln 250m north east of North Grange Farm - 0.34 km
- Site of Meaux Cistercian Abbey - 1.17 km
Meaux Today
Today Meaux lies within the administrative area of Wawne.
Read more about modern Meaux on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Meaux
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.
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jonathan Fry · 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
53.8489°N, -0.3353°W · Holderness [Middle Hundred] 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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