Middleton Quernhow in the Domesday Book (1086)
Middleton Quernhow 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 name Middleton Quernhow is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent the middle. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the middle farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Middleton Quernhow.
Listed Buildings Near Middleton Quernhow
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Middleton Quernhow. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- North Farmhouse - 0.19 km
- Boundary Wall With Gate-piers to Old Hall - 0.25 km
- The Old Hall - 0.26 km
- The Old House - 0.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Middleton Quernhow
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Middleton Quernhow:
- Middleton Quernhow Hall - 0.27 km
Middleton Quernhow Today
Today Middleton Quernhow lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 50 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 Middleton Quernhow on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Middleton [Quernhow]
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© William Metcalfe · 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
54.2010°N, -1.4864°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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