Thirkleby Manor appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Toreshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Thirkleby Manor at 6.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Thirkleby Manor supported a recorded population of 54 villagers, 46 smallholders, 13 slaves, 6 freemanmen, working 23 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Thirkleby Manor was worth 43 shillings, up from 27 shillings before the Conquest – one of the few settlements in the area to hold its value through the upheaval.

Resources Recorded at Thirkleby Manor (1086)

Churches: 1
Pigs: 27
Sheep: 50
Horses (cobs): 3
Meadow: 67 acres
Woodland: 680 pigs

Other Settlements in Toreshou

The Meaning of the Name

The name Thirkleby Manor 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 Thirkleby Manor.

Listed Buildings Near Thirkleby Manor

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Thirkleby Manor. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*