Rogerthorpe Manor in the Domesday Book (1086)

Rogerthorpe Manor is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Osgodcross

• Arksey
• Badsworth
• Beal
• Burgh[wallis]
• Campsall
• Darrington
• Featherstone
• Ferry [Fryston]
• Hamphall [Stubbs]
• Hensall
• Hessle
• Kellington
• Knottingley
• Minsthorpe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Rogerthorpe 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 Rogerthorpe Manor.

Listed Buildings Near Rogerthorpe Manor

Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Rogerthorpe Manor. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Mary - 0.57 km

Grade II

• Rogerthorpe Manor - 0.39 km
• Barn at Rogerthorpe Manor Farm, approximately 50 metres north-east of Rogerthorpe Manor - 0.39 km
• School House - 0.53 km
• Badsworth Hall - 0.54 km
• Shillito Monument Next to South East Corner of South Aisle of Church of St Mary - 0.57 km
• Mason Monument Approximately 1 Metre South of 4Th Bay of South Aisle of Church of St Mary - 0.57 km
• Sundial Approximately 15 Metres South of Church of St Mary - 0.58 km
• Harrison Monument Approximately 10 Metres West South West of Porch of Church of St Mary - 0.59 km
• Jackson Monument Approximately 13 Metres South West of Church of St Mary - 0.6 km
• Kirkbank - 0.61 km
• The Old Rectory - 0.63 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Rogerthorpe Manor

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Rogerthorpe Manor:

• Roman Fort and Associated Features 150m South-West of Standing Flat Bridge - 1.3 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Badsworth - 1.0 km S
• Thorpe Audlin - 2.0 km E
• Upton - 2.2 km SE
• Minsthorpe - 3.2 km S
• North Elmsall - 3.2 km S
• Hessle - 3.6 km NW