The settlement of Roall Hall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Roall Hall at 0.1 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Roall Hall supported a recorded population of 2 smallholders.

The survey records Roall Hall’s value at 1d 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.

Other Settlements in Osgodcross

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Roall Hall 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 Roall Hall.

Listed Buildings Near Roall Hall

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Roall Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II