Spaldington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hessle in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Spaldington at 6 carucates of taxable land.

Most significantly, Spaldington is recorded as waste in 1086 - land rendered uninhabitable and valueless. Before the Conquest, the settlement had been assessed at 1.8 shillings; by 1086 that value had collapsed entirely. This pattern - prosperity before 1066, devastation by 1086 - is the unmistakable signature of the Harrying of the North , William I’s campaign of systematic destruction across Yorkshire in 1069–70.

The survey lists 2 manors at Spaldington under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Spaldington (1086)

Meadow: 6 acres

Other Settlements in Hessle

The Meaning of the Name

The name Spaldington is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, 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’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Spaldington

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Spaldington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Home Farmhouse - 0.64 km

Spaldington Today

Today Spaldington lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 162 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 Spaldington on Wikipedia .