South Hiendley in the Domesday Book (1086)
South Hiendley is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Staincross
- Adlingfleet
- Barnby [Hall]
- Barnsley
- Barugh
- Brierley
- Carlton
- Cawthorne
- Chevet
- Clactone
- Clayton [West]
- Darton
- Dodworth
- Hemsworth
- Hoyland [Swaine]
The Meaning of the Name
The name South Hiendley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as South Hiendley.
Listed Buildings Near South Hiendley
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of South Hiendley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Peter - 0.92 km
Grade II
- Hodroyd Hall - 0.6 km
- Felkirk House - 0.87 km
- The Old Schoolroom - 0.89 km
- Cross Shaft Approximately 4 Metres South of South Chapel of Church of St Peter - 0.9 km
- Green Monument 12 Metres South of South Chapel of Church of St Peter - 0.9 km
- Green Bedford and 2 Dunhill Monuments in Row 3 1/2 to 10 1/2 Metres South of South East Corner of Church of St Peter - 0.9 km
- Methley Tomb Chest 17 Metres South of South Chapel of Church of St Peter - 0.91 km
- Parkinson Monument 4 Metres South of South Chapel of Church of St Peter and 1 Metre West of Cross Shaft - 0.91 km
- Richardson Monument 6 Metres South of Junction of South Aisle and Chapel of Church of St Peter - 0.92 km
- Watson Tomb Chest 12 Metres South of Tower of Church of St Peter - 0.93 km
Scheduled Monuments Near South Hiendley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of South Hiendley:
- Deserted medieval village of Hodroyd, Felkirk - 0.72 km
- Site of post-medieval tannery, Felkirk - 0.88 km
South Hiendley Today
Today South Hiendley lies within the administrative area of Wakefield, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,751 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 Hiendley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [South] Hiendley
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.
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© J Parkin · 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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