The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Orgrave, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Orgrave at 4.4 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Orgrave supported a recorded population of 19 freemanmen, working 6 ploughs between them.

The survey lists 3 manors at Orgrave under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Orgrave (1086)

Meadow: 16 acres
Woodland: 24 acres

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Orgrave 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 Orgrave.

Listed Buildings Near Orgrave

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Orgrave. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*