Thimbleby in the Domesday Book (1086)
Thimbleby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Allerton
- Ainderby [Steeple]
- Appleton [Wiske]
- Arncliffe [Hall]
- Birkby
- Borrowby
- Brompton
- Cowesby
- Crosby [Grange]
- Dale [Town]
- Deighton
- Ellerbeck
- Foxton
- Girsby
- Hawnby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Thimbleby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Thimbleby.
Listed Buildings Near Thimbleby
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Thimbleby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Woodlands - 0.37 km
- Washbeck House - 0.4 km
- North Webstone House Webstone House - 0.41 km
- Middle Farmhouse - 0.42 km
- East Cottage - 0.44 km
- Milton Cottage and Tudor Cottage - 0.44 km
- Thimbleby Grange - 0.66 km
- West Farmhouse - 0.74 km
- North Farmhouse - 0.78 km
- Lodges, Gate Piers, Gates and Screen Walls to Thimbleby Hall - 1.13 km
- Dovecote and Barn Approximately 400 Metres to South East of Thimbleby Hall - 1.28 km
Thimbleby Today
Today Thimbleby lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 64 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 Thimbleby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ellerbeck - 1.4 km NW
- Foxton - 2.2 km NW
- Osmotherley - 2.2 km NE
- Over Silton - 2.2 km SE
- Mount Grace - 3.0 km N
- Kirby Sigston - 3.2 km W
Heritage Around Thimbleby
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.
© Paul Howarth · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Howarth · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Murray-Rust · 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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