Thirkleby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Thirkleby is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Yarlestre
- Arden [Hall]
- Asenby
- Bagby
- Baxby
- Bergebi
- Berghebi
- Bernebi
- Boltby
- Breckenbrough
- Carlton [Husthwaite]
- Carlton [Miniott]
- Catton
- Coxwold
- Crakehill
The Meaning of the Name
The name Thirkleby 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.
Listed Buildings Near Thirkleby
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Thirkleby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of All Saints - 0.39 km
Grade II
- Arden Bridge Over Thirkleby Beck - 0.18 km
- Old Orchards - 0.21 km
- St Marys Cottage - 0.41 km
- Old Rectory - 0.85 km
- Outbuilding Approximately 5 Metres to North of Old Rectory - 0.87 km
- Milepost Approximately 100 Metres to North of Bridge Farmhouse - 0.88 km
- Stables at Thirkleby Hall - 0.93 km
- Stable and Granary Approx 3 Metres to South-west of Stockhill Green Farmhouse - 1.26 km
- Stockhill Green Farmhouse - 1.26 km
Thirkleby Today
Today Thirkleby lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 264 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 Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Islebeck Grange - 2.2 km SW
- Bagby - 2.2 km NW
- Osgoodby Hall - 2.8 km NE
- Carlton Husthwaite - 2.8 km SE
- Bernebi - 3.2 km S
- Sessay - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Thirkleby
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.
© Andy Beecroft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · 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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