Sledmere is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Toreshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Toreshou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Sledmere is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word mere, a pool or lake. 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 pool’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Sledmere.

Listed Buildings Near Sledmere

Historic England records 30 listed buildings within about a mile of Sledmere. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Sledmere House - 0.56 km

Grade II*

Church of St Mary - 0.61 km
Stables and Carriage House to Sledmere House - 0.67 km
Bloodstock Stables and Farmery With Walls and Gate Piers - 0.68 km

Grade II

Village school and schoolmaster’s house - 0.28 km
Gates, Lodges and Flanking Walls to Sledmere House - 0.34 km
Shop Farmhouse - 0.34 km
The Well and Railings - 0.37 km
Walled Garden to Sledmere House - 0.39 km
The Vicarage - 0.45 km
1-4, Gardeners Row - 0.48 km
The Villa - 0.49 km
Estate Office and Clerk’s House - 0.52 km
The Triton Inn - 0.53 km
Former Post Office and Post Master’s House - 0.55 km
Carthouse and Stables Approximately 5 Metres to East of Triton Cottage - 0.57 km
Triton Cottage and Barn Adjoining - 0.58 km
Fountain Approximately 10 Metres to South-west of Sledmere House - 0.58 km
Cross in St Mary’s Churchyard Approx 1 Metre to West of Tower - 0.63 km
Cart-sheds Approximately 7 Metres to North-east of Bloodstock Stables - 0.64 km
Gates, Piers and Walls to Sledmere House From the Stables to the Triton Inn - 0.64 km
Cart-shed and Work Rooms 3 Metres to North of Bloodstock Stables - 0.68 km
Stables Approximately 5 Metres to North of Bloodstock Stables - 0.72 km
Cart-shed Approximately 3 Metres to North-west of Bloodstock Stables - 0.72 km

…and 6 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Sledmere

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

Croom medieval settlement and cultivation terraces - 1.35 km

Sledmere Today

Today Sledmere lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 166 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 Sledmere on Wikipedia .