Swine in the Domesday Book (1086)

Swine appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

• Aldbrough
• Benningholme [Hall]
• Bewick [Hall]
• Bilton
• Burton [Constable]
• Burton [Pidsea]
• Conis[ton]
• Danthorpe
• Dowthorpe [Hall]
• Drypool
• Ellerby
• Elstronwick
• Eske
• Etherdwick

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Swine 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 Swine.

Listed Buildings Near Swine

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Swine. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Mary - 0.39 km

Grade II

• Cross at Grid Ref Ta 138358 - 0.35 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Swine

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Swine:

• Site of Swine Cistercian nunnery - 0.54 km
• Round barrow 300m south of Castle Hill Farm - 1.37 km
• Swine Castle Hill - 1.55 km

Swine Today

Today Swine lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 136 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 Swine on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Ganstead - 1.4 km SE
• Coniston - 2.0 km E
• Oubrough - 2.2 km NE
• Ellerby - 3.6 km NE
• Dowthorpe Hall - 3.6 km NE
• Sutton on Hull - 3.6 km SW