The settlement of Suthauuic is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hallikeld in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Suthauuic at 0.8 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Suthauuic supported a recorded population of 1 villager.

The survey records Suthauuic’s value at 1 shilling in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

The survey lists 3 manors at Suthauuic 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 Suthauuic (1086)

Fisheries: 1

Other Settlements in Hallikeld

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Suthauuic 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 Suthauuic.

Listed Buildings Near Suthauuic

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Suthauuic. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Hewick Bridge Over River Ure - 0.46 km
Yellow House - 0.83 km
Clock Tower - 0.94 km
Boundary Wall With Gates to Church and School - 0.96 km
School - 0.96 km
Church of the Holy Innocents - 0.98 km
Lock House - 1.23 km
Sharow Hall - 1.29 km
Stables to Sharow Hall - 1.29 km

Suthauuic Today

Today Suthauuic lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 48 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

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