The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Scagglethorpe, entered under the hundred of Scard in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Scagglethorpe at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Scagglethorpe supported a recorded population of 8 freemanmen, working 1 plough between them.

The survey records Scagglethorpe’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.

The survey lists 2 manors at Scagglethorpe 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 Scagglethorpe (1086)

Meadow: 2 None

Other Settlements in Scard

The Meaning of the Name

The name Scagglethorpe 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 Scagglethorpe.

Listed Buildings Near Scagglethorpe

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Scagglethorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Scagglethorpe Manor - 0.11 km

Scagglethorpe Today

Today Scagglethorpe lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 229 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 Scagglethorpe on Wikipedia .