South Cave in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of South Cave is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Cave
- Aughton
- Drewton
- Ellerton
- Everthorpe
- Foggathorpe
- Gribthorpe
- Hotham
- Laytham
- Melbourne
- Seaton [Ross]
- Thornton
- Yokefleet [Grange]
- [East] Cottingwith
- [High and Low] Hunsley
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name South Cave 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 South Cave.
Listed Buildings Near South Cave
Historic England records 19 listed buildings within about a mile of South Cave. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of All Saints - 1.1 km
Grade II
- 54-56, Market Place - 0.32 km
- Fox and Coney Public House - 0.32 km
- Market Hall - 0.33 km
- Holderness House - 0.34 km
- 79 and 81, Market Place - 0.35 km
- 83, Market Place - 0.35 km
- Market Place Farmhouse - 0.36 km
- East Lodge and Screen Walls to Cave Castle - 0.44 km
- House Opposite East End of Bacchus Lane - 0.52 km
- 61, Church Street - 0.67 km
- Lychgate and Attched Wall to South Cave Cemetery - 0.69 km
- Cemetery Chapel in South Cave Cemetery - 0.73 km
- Stable Block at Cave Castle - 0.99 km
- Cave Castle - 1.01 km
- West Lodge and Screen Walls to Cave Castle - 1.12 km
- 7 and 8, Church Hill - 1.16 km
- 6, Church Hill - 1.17 km
- 66, West End - 1.21 km
South Cave Today
Today South Cave lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,941 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 South Cave on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Everthorpe - 2.0 km W
- Drewton - 2.0 km N
- Ellerker - 2.0 km S
- Kettlethorpe - 2.2 km NW
- Brantingham - 2.8 km SE
- Brantingham Thorpe - 2.8 km SE
Heritage Around [South] Cave
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.
© David Wright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Wright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · 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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