The settlement of Minskip is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Minskip at 3 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Minskip supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 10 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Minskip’s value at 3 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Resources Recorded at Minskip (1086)

Meadow: 6 acres

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Minskip 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 Minskip.

Listed Buildings Near Minskip

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

Grade II