The settlement of Strickland Roger is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Strickland Roger at 0.6 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Strickland Roger supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 1 freeman, working 1 plough between them.

By 1086 Strickland Roger was worth 3 shillings, up from 1.5 shillings before the Conquest – a sign this community came through the Conquest without being ruined.

Resources Recorded at Strickland Roger (1086)

Meadow: 6 acres

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Strickland Roger 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 Strickland Roger.

Listed Buildings Near Strickland Roger

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

Grade II

Low Hundhowe and Attached Outbuilding - 0.38 km
Ghyll Cottage and Attached Barn - 0.39 km
Godmond Hall - 0.52 km
High Hundhowe - 0.58 km
Laithwaite Farmhouse - 0.69 km
Bowston Bridge - 0.91 km
Summerhouse to North of Whitefoot - 1.28 km

Strickland Roger Today

Today Strickland Roger lies within the administrative area of Westmorland and Furness, and the settlement recorded a population of 516 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 Strickland Roger on Wikipedia .