Stonegrave in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Stonegrave is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Maneshou
- Amotherby
- Ampleforth
- Appleton [le Street]
- Beadlam
- Brawby
- Broughton
- Cawton
- Coulton
- Fadmoor
- Fryton
- Gillamoor
- Gilling [East]
- Griff [Farm]
- Grimston
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Stonegrave 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 Stonegrave.
Listed Buildings Near Stonegrave
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Stonegrave. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.4 km
Grade II
- Stonegrave House - 0.33 km
- Apiary Approximately 5 Metres East of Stonegrave House - 0.33 km
- Outbuildings Approximately 10 Metres West of Stonegrave House - 0.34 km
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.4 km
- South Farmhouse - 0.45 km
- Milepost Approximately 100 Metres South-east of South Farm - 0.53 km
- Spa Villa - 1.22 km
- Milepost Approximately 400 Metres East of Stonegrave Lodge - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Stonegrave
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Stonegrave:
- Earthworks by Stonegrave church - 0.43 km
Stonegrave Today
Today Stonegrave lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 101 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 Stonegrave on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Cawton - 1.4 km SW
- Laysthorpe Lodge - 2.2 km NW
- Nunnington - 2.2 km NE
- East Newton - 2.2 km NW
- West Newton Grange - 2.2 km NW
- Hovingham - 2.2 km SE
Heritage Around Stonegrave
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.
© Stuart and Fiona Jackson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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