Shippen House in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Shippen House, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Skyrack

• Adel
• Allerton [Bywater]
• Alwoodley
• Arthington
• Austhorpe
• Baildon
• Bardsey
• Barwick [in Elmet]
• Bichertun
• Bicherun
• Bingley
• Birkby [Hill]
• Bramhope
• Burden [Head]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Shippen House 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 Shippen House.

Listed Buildings Near Shippen House

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Shippen House. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Crawshaw Woods (Shippen House Farm) bridge, HUL4/20 - 0.3 km
• Lazencroft Farmhouse - 0.37 km
• Dovecote Attached to Farm Buildings at Manston Hall Farm - 0.71 km
• Barrowby Hall With Front Steps and Flanking Screen Walls and Gate Piers - 0.96 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Shippen House

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Shippen House:

• Former World War I National Filling Factory, Barnbow - 0.32 km
• Length of Grim’s Ditch 260m west of Brown Moor Farm - 1.22 km
• Length of Grim’s Ditch immediately east of Barrowby Road - 1.44 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Austhorpe - 1.4 km SW
• Garforth - 2.2 km SE
• Manston - 2.2 km NW
• Colton - 2.8 km SW
• Halton - 3.2 km W
• Seacroft - 3.2 km W