North Milford Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
North Milford Hall appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Barkston
- Barkston
- Barlow
- Birkin
- Bramham
- Brayton
- Burton [Hall]
- Camblesforth
- Carlton
- Clifford
- Drax
- Fairburn
- Grimston [Grange]
- Hambleton
- Hazelwood [Castle]
The Meaning of the Name
The name North Milford Hall is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as North Milford Hall.
Listed Buildings Near North Milford Hall
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of North Milford Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- North Milford Hall - 0.05 km
Scheduled Monuments Near North Milford Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of North Milford Hall:
- Roman villa - 1.41 km
North Milford Hall Today
Today North Milford Hall lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 87 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Neuhuse - 1.4 km NE
- Niuuehusum - 1.4 km NE
- Ulleskelf - 1.4 km NE
- Towton - 2.0 km W
- Kirkby Wharfe - 2.0 km N
- Hornington Manor - 2.2 km NE
Heritage Around [North] Milford [Hall]
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.
© Andrew Whale · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andrew Whale · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Kneale Brooke · 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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