The settlement of Pillwoods Farm is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Welton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Welton

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Pillwoods Farm 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 Pillwoods Farm.

Listed Buildings Near Pillwoods Farm

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

Grade II*

Grade II

Sarum House - 1.25 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Pillwoods Farm

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Pillwoods Farm:

Bowl barrow 400m north of Highfield House - 0.93 km
Baynard Castle - 1.52 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Cottingham - 2.0 km S
Skidby - 3.2 km W
Bentley - 3.2 km W
Risby - 4.0 km W
Willerby - 4.1 km S
Wolfreton - 5.1 km S

Heritage Around Pillwoods [Farm]

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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Pillwoods Farm in the Domesday Book (1086)