The settlement of Newsham Grange is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Newsham Grange at 24.3 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Newsham Grange supported a recorded population of 14 villagers, 8 slaves, working 6 ploughs between them.

The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Newsham Grange was worth 24.37 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 12.85 shillings – a fall of 47%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

The survey lists 4 manors at Newsham Grange under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Newsham Grange (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 12d)
Churches: 1
Fisheries: 4
Meadow: 15 acres

Other Settlements in Allerton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Newsham Grange is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village, while the first element appears to represent the new. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the new homestead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Newsham Grange.

Listed Buildings Near Newsham Grange

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Newsham Grange. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II