Osgodby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Howden

The Meaning of the Name

The name Osgodby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

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 Osgodby.

Listed Buildings Near Osgodby

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

Grade II

Former War Department munitions depot - 1.23 km

Osgodby Today

Today Osgodby lies within the administrative area of Barlby with Osgodby.

Read more about modern Osgodby on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Barlby - 1.4 km NW
Cliffe - 2.8 km SE
Selby - 3.2 km W
South Duffield - 4.0 km E
Hemingbrough - 4.2 km SE
Bowthorpe - 5.0 km E

Heritage Around Osgodby

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.

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Osgodby in the Domesday Book (1086)