Tankersley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Tankersley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Staincross
- Adlingfleet
- Barnby [Hall]
- Barnsley
- Barugh
- Brierley
- Carlton
- Cawthorne
- Chevet
- Clactone
- Clayton [West]
- Darton
- Dodworth
- Hemsworth
- Hoyland [Swaine]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Tankersley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Tankersley.
Listed Buildings Near Tankersley
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Tankersley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Peter - 0.37 km
Grade II
- Sundial Approximately 20 Metres to South West of Porch of Church of St Peter - 0.36 km
- Mounting Platform Approximately 10 Metres to South West of Porch of Church of St Peter - 0.36 km
- Farmbuilding Approximately 80 Metres to East of Tankersley Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Dovecote at Glebe Farm Approximately 20 Metres to North of Farmhouse - 0.44 km
- Tankersley Farmhouse Including Tankersley Farm Cottage and Attached Farmbuildings - 0.49 km
- Stone Bar Farmhouse With Attached Stable and Barn - 0.9 km
- Tankersley Mine Rescue Station - 1.08 km
- Old Hall Farmhouse and The Cottage - 1.18 km
- Birdwell Obelisk - 1.19 km
- Tankersley Old Hall - 1.2 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Tankersley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Tankersley:
- Dovecote at Glebe Farm - 0.44 km
Tankersley Today
Today Tankersley lies within the administrative area of Barnsley, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,926 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 Tankersley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Pilley - 1.4 km NW
- Hoyland Nether - 2.2 km NE
- Wortley - 4.0 km W
- Wentworth - 4.1 km E
- Worsborough - 4.1 km N
- Thorpe Hesley - 4.2 km SE
Heritage Around Tankersley
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.
© Richard Whitham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Wendy North · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Wendy North · 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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