Northfield Farm is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Dic

The Meaning of the Name

The name Northfield Farm is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word feld, open country, while the first element appears to represent the northern. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the northern open land’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Northfield Farm.

Listed Buildings Near Northfield Farm

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Northfield Farm. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Northfield Farm Today

Today Northfield Farm lies within the administrative area of Suffield-cum-Everley.

Read more about modern Suffield on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Suffield - 0.0 km N
Scalby - 2.0 km E
Hackness - 2.0 km W
Everley - 2.2 km SW
Stemainesbi - 3.0 km E
Stemanesbi - 3.0 km E

Heritage Around Northfield [Farm]

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.

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Northfield Farm in the Domesday Book (1086)