Owsthorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Howden

• Asselby
• Babthorpe
• Barlby
• Barmby [on the Marsh]
• Barnhill [Hall]
• Belby [House]
• Bowthorpe
• Brackenholme
• Burland [House]
• Cavil
• Cliffe
• Cotness [Hall]
• Eastrington
• Hagthorpe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Owsthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.

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 Owsthorpe.

Listed Buildings Near Owsthorpe

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Owsthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Michael - 1.08 km

Grade II

• The Laurels - 1.04 km
• The Manor House - 1.1 km
• The Old Vicarage - 1.15 km
• Moss Farmhouse - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Owsthorpe

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

• Moated site at Newland Farm - 1.32 km

Owsthorpe Today

Today Owsthorpe lies within the administrative area of Eastrington.

Read more about modern Owsthorpe on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Eastrington - 1.4 km SW
• Portington - 2.0 km W
• Hive - 2.2 km NE
• Yokefleet Grange - 2.2 km NE
• Burland House - 3.0 km W
• Cavil - 3.0 km W