Stanley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Agbrigg

The Meaning of the Name

The name Stanley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade, while the first element appears to represent stone (OE stān). Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the stone clearing’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Stanley

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Stanley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Stanley Ferry Aqueduct - 1.12 km

Grade II*

Clarke Hall - 0.53 km

Grade II

Stanley Hall - 0.37 km
Forecourt Walls to North of Clarke Hall, and Mounting Blocks - 0.54 km
23,25, Finkin Lane - 0.67 km
Milepost Opposite no 34 - 0.78 km
Milepost Outside no 220 - 0.82 km
Stanley Royd Hospital Eastern Part of Main Range Comprising Early C19 Former Paupers’ Lunatic Asylum - 1.02 km
Aqueduct Cottage Between River Calder and the Aire and Calder Navigation Basin - 1.08 km
Former Ventilating Tower Approximately 3 Metres to South West of South West Wing of Former Paupers’ Lunatic Asylum, Stanley Royd Hospital - 1.09 km
Hatfeild Hall - 1.1 km
Theatre at Stanley Royd Hospital - 1.1 km
Westfield House and Westfield Lodge - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Stanley

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

Stanley Ferry aqueduct - 1.12 km

Stanley Today

Today Stanley lies within the administrative area of Wakefield, and the settlement recorded a population of 15,314 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Stanley on Wikipedia .