The settlement of Roudeluestorp is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Roudeluestorp at 2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Roudeluestorp supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 2 smallholders, 4 slaves, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Roudeluestorp’s value at 2 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Resources Recorded at Roudeluestorp (1086)

Meadow: 10 acres

Other Settlements in Dic

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Roudeluestorp 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 Roudeluestorp.

Listed Buildings Near Roudeluestorp

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Roudeluestorp. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Gristhorpe Hall - 0.41 km
Manor Farmhouse - 0.43 km
Coach House Attached to Gristhorpe Hall at North-east - 0.44 km

Roudeluestorp Today

Today Roudeluestorp lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 418 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 Gristhorpe on Wikipedia .