Stainforth in the Domesday Book (1086)

Stainforth appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

• Adwick [le Street]
• Adwick [upon Dearne]
• Armthorpe
• Aston
• Attercliffe
• Auckley
• Aughton [Hall]
• Austerfield
• Balby
• Barnbrough
• Barnby [Dun]
• Bentley
• Bilham [House]
• Billingley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Stainforth is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing, while the first element appears to represent stone (ON steinn). Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the stone ford’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Stainforth

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Stainforth. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• War Memorial Immediately to East of Chapel at Stainforth Cemetery - 0.39 km
• Town End Farmhouse - 0.63 km
• Timber Framed Building - 0.69 km
• Numbers 1 and 2 headstocks at the former Hatfield Main Colliery - 0.69 km
• Poplar House - 0.75 km
• Stainforth Bridge - 0.82 km
• Numbers 2 and 3 Lock Cottages - 0.91 km

Stainforth Today

Today Stainforth lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 6,375 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 Stainforth on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Kirk Bramwith - 2.0 km W
• South Bramwith - 2.0 km W
• Fishlake - 2.2 km NE
• Hatfield - 2.8 km SE
• Barnby Dun - 3.6 km SW
• Tudworth Green - 4.1 km E