Riccall in the Domesday Book (1086)
Riccall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Riccall at 0.6 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Riccall supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 3 smallholders, 5 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.
The survey records Riccall’s value at 2.12 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
The survey lists 2 manors at Riccall under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.
Resources Recorded at Riccall (1086)
- Cattle: 8
- Pigs: 2
- Sheep: 20
- Meadow: 5 acres
- Woodland: 5 None
Other Settlements in Howden
- Asselby
- Babthorpe
- Barlby
- Barmby [on the Marsh]
- Barnhill [Hall]
- Belby [House]
- Bowthorpe
- Brackenholme
- Burland [House]
- Cavil
- Cliffe
- Cotness [Hall]
- Eastrington
- Hagthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Riccall 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 Riccall.
Listed Buildings Near Riccall
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Riccall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Mary - 0.51 km
Grade II*
- The Manor House - 0.6 km
Grade II
- Tower House - 0.11 km
- 10, Church Street - 0.4 km
- Hawthorn Farm - 0.44 km
- 10, Kelfield Road - 0.48 km
- Riccall War Memorial - 0.55 km
- Red House - 0.56 km
- Pigeoncote to the Manor House - 0.62 km
- Riccall House - 0.66 km
- Bangram Hill Farmhouse - 0.9 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Riccall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Riccall:
Riccall Today
Today Riccall lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,520 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Riccall on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Kelfield - 2.2 km NW
- Stillingfleet - 3.6 km NW
- Barlby - 3.6 km SE
- Acaster Selby - 5.0 km NW
- Osgodby - 5.0 km SE
- Selby - 5.0 km S
Heritage Around Riccall
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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Sam Kelly · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Heraty · 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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