The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Osbaldwick, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The name Osbaldwick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Osbaldwick

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Osbaldwick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Church of St Thomas - 0.41 km
Osbaldwick Hall - 0.5 km
Stanley House - 0.52 km
Hollytree House - 0.55 km
Millfield House (Number 153A) and Tall Timbers (Number 165A) - 1.0 km
Font, Approximately 2 1/2 Metres to North of Chancel of Heslington Church - 1.2 km
Heslington Anglican and Methodist Church - 1.21 km
Village School - 1.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Osbaldwick

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Osbaldwick:

Siwards How, south east of the water tower, Heslington Hill - 1.54 km

Osbaldwick Today

Today Osbaldwick lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,086 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 Osbaldwick on Wikipedia .