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

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Orgreave 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 Orgreave.

Listed Buildings Near Orgreave

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Orgreave. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Woodhouse Mill War Memorial - 0.95 km

Orgreave Today

Today Orgreave lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 718 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 Orgreave on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Handsworth - 1.0 km W
Treeton - 1.4 km NE
Aughton Hall - 3.0 km E
Brinsworth - 3.2 km N
Beighton - 3.6 km SE
Ulley - 4.1 km E

Heritage Around Orgreave

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.

Railway bridge on Retford Road, Woodhouse Mill, Sheffield (2009)
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

War Memorial, Treeton (2003)
© Webmaster · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Treeton war memorial (2009)
© Martin Speck · 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.

Orgreave in the Domesday Book (1086)