Newsome Farm in the Domesday Book (1086)

Newsome Farm appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

• Addlethorpe
• Aismunderby
• Aldfield
• Allerton [Mauleverer]
• Arkendale
• Askwith
• Azerley
• Barrowby [Grange]
• Beckwith [House]
• Besthaim
• Bestham
• Bewerley
• Bilton
• Birstwith

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Newsome Farm 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 Newsome Farm.

Listed Buildings Near Newsome Farm

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Newsome Farm. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of All Saints - 1.2 km

Grade II

• John Metcalf Memorial Approximately 15 Metres From East End of North Aisle of Church of All Saints - 1.18 km
• Chantry House Massey Garth - 1.2 km
• Mounting Block - 1.24 km
• Archway With Gates and Flanking Walls and Inner, Freestanding Archway to the Old Rectory - 1.25 km
• Dovecote Approximately 30 Metres West of Old Hall - 1.26 km
• The Old Rectory - 1.28 km
• Old Hall - 1.28 km
• Pump Against North East Corner of Old Hall - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Newsome Farm

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Newsome Farm:

• Green Howe bowl barrow, 280m south of Bank House - 1.29 km
• Spofforth Castle magnates’ residence - 1.56 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Caldeuuelle - 1.0 km W
• Cradeuuelle - 1.0 km W
• Spofforth - 1.0 km W
• Kirk and North Deighton - 2.0 km E
• Great Braham - 2.2 km NW
• Little Braham - 2.2 km NW