Newsholme is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Newsholme at 1.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Newsholme supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 5 smallholders, 1 slave, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Newsholme’s value at 14d 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.

Resources Recorded at Newsholme (1086)

Pigs: 1
Sheep: 9

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The name Newsholme is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word holmr, an island or patch of raised ground in marsh, while the first element appears to represent the new. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the new island’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

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

Listed Buildings Near Newsholme

Historic England records 31 listed buildings within about a mile of Newsholme. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II