Seuenetorp is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Seuenetorp 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 Seuenetorp.

Scheduled Monuments Near Seuenetorp

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

Swainby medieval settlement, Premonstratensian abbey, grange and field system, immediately east of Swainby Grove - 0.18 km

Seuenetorp Today

Today Seuenetorp lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 19 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 Swainby with Allerthorpe on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Low Swainby - 0.0 km N
Maunby - 1.4 km NE
Allerthorpe Hall - 1.4 km NW
Gatenby - 2.2 km NW
Ounesbi - 2.2 km NW
Pickhill - 2.2 km SE

Heritage Around Seuenetorp

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.

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Seuenetorp in the Domesday Book (1086)