Ravensthorpe Manor in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ravensthorpe Manor, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

• Ainderby [Steeple]
• Appleton [Wiske]
• Arncliffe [Hall]
• Birkby
• Borrowby
• Brompton
• Cowesby
• Crosby [Grange]
• Dale [Town]
• Deighton
• Ellerbeck
• Foxton
• Girsby
• Hawnby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ravensthorpe Manor is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Ravensthorpe Manor.

Listed Buildings Near Ravensthorpe Manor

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Ravensthorpe Manor. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Garage Range Approximately 15 Metres to North West of Raventhorpe Mill - 0.58 km
• Raventhorpe Mill - 0.58 km
• Outbuilding Approximately 20 Metres to West of Raventhorpe Mill - 0.59 km
• East Farmhouse - 1.19 km
• Bridge Over Gurtoff Beck - 1.22 km
• Housebrough - 1.23 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Ravensthorpe Manor

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 8 lie within roughly a mile of Ravensthorpe Manor:

• Ravensthorpe manor house (site of) - 0.36 km
• Boltby Scar promontory fort and two round barrows - 1.02 km
• Round barrow 400m south east of Hill Fort Windypit - 1.33 km
• Round barrow 500m south east of Hill Fort Windypit - 1.37 km
• Round barrow 600m north east of South Woods - 1.43 km
• Round barrow 650m east of South Woods - 1.57 km
• Round barrow 75m west of High Barn - 1.58 km
• Pit alignment forming part of the Cleave Dyke system 1000m north west of Dialstone Farm - 1.6 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Boltby - 1.0 km N
• Felixkirk - 3.2 km W
• Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe - 3.2 km S
• Marderby Hall - 3.6 km SW
• Kirby Knowle - 3.6 km NW
• Cold Kirby - 4.1 km E