Pilley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Pilley, 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 name Pilley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Pilley.
Listed Buildings Near Pilley
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Pilley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Old Manor House - 0.23 km
- Birdwell Obelisk - 1.02 km
- Tankersley Mine Rescue Station - 1.11 km
- Stone Bar Farmhouse With Attached Stable and Barn - 1.23 km
- Tankersley Farmhouse Including Tankersley Farm Cottage and Attached Farmbuildings - 1.26 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Pilley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Pilley:
- Dovecote at Glebe Farm - 1.45 km
Pilley Today
Today Pilley lies within the administrative area of Tankersley.
Read more about modern Pilley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Tankersley - 1.4 km SE
- Hoyland Nether - 3.0 km E
- Wortley - 3.2 km W
- Worsborough - 3.6 km NE
- Stainborough Castle - 3.6 km NW
- Thurgoland - 4.0 km W
Heritage Around Pilley
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.
© Richard Whitham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Wendy North · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Pickersgill · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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