Skirpenbeck in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Skirpenbeck, entered under the hundred of Acklam in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Acklam
- Acklam
- Barthorpe [Grange]
- Bugthorpe
- Burythorpe
- Eddlethorpe
- Firby
- Fridaythorpe
- Garrowby [Hall]
- Howsham
- Kirby [Underdale]
- Kirkham
- Leavening
- Leppington
- Menethorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Skirpenbeck is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bekkr, a stream. 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 stream’.
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 Skirpenbeck.
Listed Buildings Near Skirpenbeck
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Skirpenbeck. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of Saint Mary - 0.45 km
Grade II
- The Rectory - 0.42 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.46 km
- House Adjacent to the Cottage to the East - 0.47 km
- The Cottage - 0.47 km
- Skirpenbeck House - 0.51 km
- Stable Block to Rear of Skirpenbeck House - 0.52 km
- Cowhouse Immediately to South East of Stable Block at Skirpenbeck House - 0.53 km
- Dovecote Range Attached to Se of Cowhouse at Skirpenbeck - 0.55 km
- The Willows - 0.55 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Skirpenbeck
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Skirpenbeck:
Skirpenbeck Today
Today Skirpenbeck lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 490 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 Skirpenbeck on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Scardiztorp - 0.0 km N
- Scradiztorp - 0.0 km N
- Buttercrambe - 1.4 km NW
- Youlthorpe - 2.8 km SE
- Bugthorpe - 3.0 km E
- Thoralby Hall - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Skirpenbeck
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.
© Andy Kerridge · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Kerridge · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Kath Bonson · 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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