Rawcliffe Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
Rawcliffe Hall appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Rawcliffe Hall is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word clif, a cliff or steep slope. 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 slope’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Rawcliffe Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Rawcliffe Hall
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Rawcliffe Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Rawcliffe Hall - 0.31 km
- Old Vicarage - 0.95 km
- Church of St John - 0.97 km
- Barn on East Side of Lane Circa 70 Metres North of Wall Farmhouse - 1.2 km
- Wall Farmhouse - 1.25 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Out Rawcliffe - 1.0 km W
- Great Eccleston - 1.4 km SE
- Upper Rawcliffe - 2.0 km E
- Little Eccleston - 2.0 km S
- Elswick - 3.2 km S
- Hambleton - 4.1 km W
Heritage Around Rawcliffe [Hall]
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.
© Bob Jenkins · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bob Jenkins · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Galatas · 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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