Pickhill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Pickhill 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 Pickhill.

Listed Buildings Near Pickhill

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

Grade II*

Church of All Saints - 0.3 km

Grade II

Norton House - 0.2 km
Medieval Cross Approximately 15 Metres to South of South Porch of the Church of All Saints - 0.27 km
Tombstone to Elizabeth Squire Apprximately 10 Metres to South West of South Porch of the Church of All Saints - 0.27 km
Church House - 0.3 km
Dovecote Approximately 20 Metres to South East of the Old Rectory - 0.33 km
The Old Vicarage - 0.34 km
Holme Lodge - 1.24 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Pickhill

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

Money Hill motte and bailey castle - 0.27 km

Pickhill Today

Today Pickhill lies within the administrative area of Pickhill with Roxby, and the settlement recorded a population of 401 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Pickhill on Wikipedia .