North Skirlaugh in the Domesday Book (1086)

North Skirlaugh appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

• Aldbrough
• Benningholme [Hall]
• Bewick [Hall]
• Bilton
• Burton [Constable]
• Burton [Pidsea]
• Conis[ton]
• Danthorpe
• Dowthorpe [Hall]
• Drypool
• Ellerby
• Elstronwick
• Eske
• Etherdwick

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name North Skirlaugh 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 North Skirlaugh.

Listed Buildings Near North Skirlaugh

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of North Skirlaugh. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Augustine - 0.5 km

Grade II

• Hazlemere Farmhouse - 0.27 km
• Springfield House - 0.47 km
• Southernwood - 0.77 km
• Rowton Villas, Offices of Holderness Borough Council - 0.94 km

North Skirlaugh Today

Today North Skirlaugh lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,672 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 Skirlaugh on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Dowthorpe Hall - 1.4 km SE
• Rowton Farm - 1.4 km NW
• Langthorpe Hall - 2.0 km E
• Benningholme Hall - 2.0 km W
• Rise - 2.0 km N
• Ellerby - 2.8 km SE