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

Other Settlements in Morley

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Rastrick 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 Rastrick.

Listed Buildings Near Rastrick

Historic England records 30 listed buildings within about a mile of Rastrick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Cross Base in Churchyard of St Matthews Church - 0.26 km
Church of St Matthew - 0.28 km

Grade II

Rastrick Library - 0.08 km
War Memorial Outside Rastrick Library - 0.1 km
Stone Built Into West Face of Wall to Number 15 - 0.13 km
14 and 14A, Crowtrees Lane - 0.15 km
6, Crowtrees Lane - 0.22 km
Guide Post at Junction of Delf Hill and Tofts Grove at Ngr Se 134212 - 0.27 km
10 and 12, Field Lane - 0.28 km
Entrance gate, railings and gate piers to Rastrick House - 0.29 km
Lodge at Junction of Field Lane - 0.3 km
11 and 13, Church Street - 0.32 km
1 and 1A, Church Street, Rastrick - 0.35 km
9, 11 and 13, Delf Hill - 0.37 km
Milestone, 10 Metres Below Entrance to St Matthews Vicarage at Ngr Se 139216 - 0.38 km
Castle Hill House - 0.4 km
1 Stonelea Drive - 0.4 km
20, 22 and 24, New Hey Road - 0.5 km
115, Rastrick Common - 0.57 km
Detached Stable to Number 115 - 0.57 km
Garden pavilion in corner of walled garden to rear of Toothill Court - 0.8 km
Toothill Court - 0.83 km
107 and 109, Lower Edge Road - 0.84 km
Toothill Hall - 0.85 km

…and 6 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Rastrick

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

Anglian high cross fragment in the churchyard of St Matthew’s Church, Rastrick - 0.26 km

Rastrick Today

Today Rastrick lies within the administrative area of Calderdale, and the settlement recorded a population of 11,351 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 Rastrick on Wikipedia .