Ribby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Ribby 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 Ribby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
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 Ribby.
Listed Buildings Near Ribby
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Ribby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Ribby Hall - 0.66 km
- Hawthorn House - 0.67 km
- Church Grove House - 0.81 km
- Church of St Nicholas - 0.83 km
- Grammar School (Front Range Only) - 1.11 km
- Churchyard Wall and Gateway South of the Church of St John the Evangelist - 1.27 km
- Church of St John the Evangelist - 1.28 km
- Fox Lane Ends Cross - 1.28 km
Ribby Today
Today Ribby lies within the administrative area of Ribby-with-Wrea.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Ribby
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Anthony Parkes · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Robert Wade · 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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