Odulfesmare in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Odulfesmare is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Dic

• Aislaby
• Allerston
• Appleton [le Moors]
• Aschelesmersc
• Aschilesmares
• Barton [le Street]
• Baschebi
• Baschesbi
• Brompton
• Burniston
• Burton [Dale]
• Cawthorn
• Cayton
• Chigogemers

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Odulfesmare 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 Odulfesmare.

Listed Buildings Near Odulfesmare

Historic England records 225 listed buildings within about a mile of Odulfesmare. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Beck Isle Museum - 0.32 km

Grade II

• 24 and 25, Under Cliffe - 0.13 km
• 14-19, Under Cliffe - 0.14 km
• 13, Train Lane - 0.16 km
• Friends’ Meeting House - 0.23 km
• 9, Castlegate - 0.24 km
• 10, Castlegate - 0.24 km
• 12 and 13, Castlegate - 0.24 km
• 11, Castlegate - 0.24 km
• 14, 14A and 15, Castlegate - 0.25 km
• 16, Castlegate - 0.25 km
• 17 and 18, Castlegate - 0.25 km
• 19, Castlegate - 0.26 km
• 23-27, Park Terrace - 0.28 km
• Farm Buildings to North of Beck Isle Museum - 0.29 km
• 14, 19 and 21, Brant Hill - 0.3 km
• Pickering Railway Station, Main Building (Including Station House and Retaining Walls) - 0.3 km
• Beck Isle Cottage - 0.31 km
• Premises to left of Fern Leigh occupied by J Watson - 0.32 km
• Fern Leigh - 0.32 km
• 24, Castlegate - 0.34 km
• Rose Cottage - 0.34 km
• 5, Castlegate - 0.34 km
• Langdale House - 0.34 km

…and 201 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Odulfesmare

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Odulfesmare:

• Pickering Castle: 11th century motte and bailey castle and 13th century shell keep castle - 0.25 km
• Beacon Hill ringwork siege castle and Royal Observer Corps post - 0.32 km
• St Nicholas’ medieval hospital 550m East of Brick Yard Farm - 1.19 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Aschelesmersc - 0.0 km N
• Aschilesmares - 0.0 km N
• Maxudesmares - 0.0 km N
• Maxudesmersc - 0.0 km N
• Ouduluesmersc - 0.0 km N
• Pickering - 0.0 km N