Scorborough in the Domesday Book (1086)
Scorborough is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Sneculfcros in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Sneculfcros
- Aike
- Beswick
- Beverley
- Bracken
- Dunnington
- Etton
- Gardham
- Grimston
- Holme [on the Wolds]
- Ianulfestorp
- Kilnwick
- Leconfield
- Lockington
- Middleton [on the Wolds]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Scorborough is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place. 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 stronghold’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Scorborough.
Listed Buildings Near Scorborough
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Scorborough. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Leonard - 0.15 km
Grade II
- Scorborough Hall - 0.23 km
- Bridge Over Moat at Scorborough Hall - 0.29 km
- White House Farm - 0.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Scorborough
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Scorborough:
- Moated site 310m north east of Scorborough church - 0.25 km
- Square barrow cemetery, moated site, fishponds and medieval settlement remains at Scorborough - 0.3 km
- Moated site 550m south east of Scorborough Hall - 0.71 km
Scorborough Today
Today Scorborough lies within the administrative area of Leconfield.
Read more about modern Scorborough on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Persene - 0.0 km N
- Leconfield - 2.0 km S
- Neuson - 2.0 km S
- Lockington - 2.8 km NW
- Aike - 3.0 km E
- Beswick - 3.0 km N
Heritage Around Scorborough
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.
© Neil Smith · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen Horncastle · 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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