Skeckling in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Skeckling is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

• Andrebi
• Burstwick
• Camerton [Hall]
• Dimlington
• Easington
• Grimston
• Halsham
• Hilston
• Hollym
• Holmpton
• Keyingham
• Kilnsea
• Monkwith
• Newton [Garth]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Skeckling 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 Skeckling.

Listed Buildings Near Skeckling

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Skeckling. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of All Saints - 0.46 km

Grade II

• Burstwick House - 0.78 km
• The Cottage - 0.96 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Skeckling

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

• Burstwick Castle - 0.79 km

Skeckling Today

Today Skeckling lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,862 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 Burstwick on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Burstwick - 1.0 km S
• Totleys Farm - 1.4 km SE
• Nuthill - 1.4 km NW
• Camerton Hall - 2.2 km SW
• Thorngumbald - 2.8 km SW
• Keyingham - 3.6 km SE