North Frodingham in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of North Frodingham, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]
- Arnestorp
- Arram
- Barmston
- Beeford
- Bewholme
- Brandesburton
- Catfoss [Hall]
- Catwick
- Chenecol
- Chenucol
- Chenuthesholm
- Cleeton
- Dringhoe
- Dunnington
The Meaning of the Name
The name North Frodingham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a homestead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as North Frodingham.
Listed Buildings Near North Frodingham
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of North Frodingham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Elgin - 0.63 km
Grade II
- Market Cross - 0.35 km
- Church End Farmhouse - 0.59 km
North Frodingham Today
Today North Frodingham lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 802 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern North Frodingham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [North] Frodingham
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.
© JThomas · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Patty McAlpin · 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.
Location
53.9658°N, -0.3306°W · Holderness [North Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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