Newsholme in the Domesday Book (1086)
Newsholme is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Hessle in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Hessle
- Anlaby
- Breighton
- Bubwith
- Chetelestorp
- Chrachetorp
- Crachetorp
- Gunby
- Hessle
- Lund
- Myton
- Riplingham
- Siuuarbi
- Spaldington
- Totfled
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.
Newsholme Today
Today Newsholme lies within the administrative area of Wressle.
Read more about modern Newsholme on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Asselby - 1.0 km S
- Brackenholme - 1.4 km NW
- Hagthorpe - 1.4 km NW
- Babthorpe - 2.0 km W
- Barmby on the Marsh - 2.2 km SW
- Barnhill Hall - 2.2 km SE
Heritage Around Newsholme
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
© mym · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Harrop · 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.
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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