Oxspring in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Oxspring, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Staincross

• Adlingfleet
• Barnby [Hall]
• Barnsley
• Barugh
• Brierley
• Carlton
• Cawthorne
• Chevet
• Clactone
• Clayton [West]
• Darton
• Dodworth
• Hemsworth
• Hoyland [Swaine]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Oxspring 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 Oxspring.

Listed Buildings Near Oxspring

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

Grade II

• Oxspring Bridge Over River Don - 0.5 km
• Far Coates Cottage (East) - 0.65 km
• Far Coates Cottage (west) - 0.66 km
• Far Coates Farmhouse - 0.66 km
• Thurgoland Bridge - 0.75 km
• Thurgoland Bridge - 0.75 km
• Milepost approximately 350 metres west of Thurgoland Bridge - 0.79 km
• Willow Bridge, Approximately 300 Metres North of Willow Lane Bungalow - 0.9 km
• Pule Hill Hall and adjoining building to left - 1.26 km

Oxspring Today

Today Oxspring lies within the administrative area of Barnsley, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,196 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 Oxspring on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Clactone - 0.0 km N
• Roughbirchworth - 1.4 km SW
• Hoyland Swaine - 2.2 km NW
• Thurgoland - 2.8 km SE
• Hunshelf Hall - 3.0 km S
• Penistone - 3.2 km W