Skidby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Skidby, entered under the hundred of Welton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Welton
- Bentley
- Brantingham
- Brantingham [Thorpe]
- Cottingham
- Ellerker
- Elloughton
- Lund
- Pillwoods [Farm]
- Risby
- Toschetorp
- Walkington
- Wauldby
- Welton
- [Little] Weighton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Skidby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Skidby.
Listed Buildings Near Skidby
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Skidby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of Saint Michael - 0.21 km
- Skidby Mill and attached mill buildings - 0.46 km
Grade II
- 44, Main Street - 0.26 km
- Outbuilding and Stables to North of Skidby Mill - 0.44 km
- West Cottage Grange Farm and Screen Walls - 1.28 km
Skidby Today
Today Skidby lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,236 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 Skidby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Risby - 1.4 km NW
- Bentley - 2.0 km N
- Little Weighton - 3.0 km W
- Pillwoods Farm - 3.2 km E
- Cottingham - 3.2 km E
- Willerby - 3.6 km SE
Heritage Around Skidby
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.
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Buttle · 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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