The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Sherburn, entered under the hundred of Toreshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Toreshou

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Sherburn 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 Sherburn.

Listed Buildings Near Sherburn

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Sherburn. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Hilda - 1.01 km

Grade II

Brewery House - 0.25 km
Old Pigeon Pie Court - 0.35 km
Pasture House Farmhouse - 0.36 km
Corner Farmhouse - 0.39 km
Range of Farmbuildings at Rear of Corner Farmhouse - 0.41 km
9, St Hilda’s Street - 0.43 km
13, St Hilda’s Street - 0.44 km
Milepost Approximately 200 Metres East of Sherburn Lodge - 0.69 km
Village Cross - 0.88 km
Lychgate and Attached Churchyard Wall, Approximately 50 Metres South-west of Church of St Hilda - 0.98 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Sherburn

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

Round barrow NE of Lawson’s Wold Barn - 1.32 km

Sherburn Today

Today Sherburn lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 870 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 Sherburn on Wikipedia .