Nunthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Nunthorpe, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Nunthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Nunthorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Nunthorpe
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Nunthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
Grade II
- Chapel of St. Mary, in Grounds of Nunthorpe Hall - 0.56 km
- 1, East Side - 0.57 km
- Nunthorpe Hall - 0.57 km
- Garden Terrace Wall, Stairs and Steps, in Grounds of Nunthorpe Hall - 0.57 km
- Gates, Gatepiers and Crescent Walls at Entrance to Nunthorpe Hall - 0.6 km
- 4, West Side - 0.61 km
- 6, West Side - 0.61 km
- 8 and 10, West Side - 0.62 km
- Gatepiers at Entrance to the Lodge and Poole Hospital - 0.77 km
- Lychgate and Adjoining Stile, Fence and Gate, C45m South-west of Church of St Mary - 0.78 km
- The Lodge - 0.79 km
- Church of St. Mary - 0.8 km
- The Vicarage - 0.85 km
- Nunthorpe War Memorial - 0.85 km
- Tree Bridge - 1.18 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Nunthorpe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Nunthorpe:
- Earthworks at Nunthorpe Hall - 0.65 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Morton Grange - 1.4 km NE
- Newton - 2.0 km E
- Tunstall Farm - 2.2 km SW
- Newham Hall - 3.0 km W
- Pinchinthorpe Hall - 3.2 km E
- Ormesby - 3.2 km N
Heritage Around [Nun]thorpe
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · 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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