Thorpe Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thorpe Hall, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burton

• Binnington
• Boythorpe
• Burton [Agnes]
• Butterwick
• Carnaby
• Fornetorp
• Ganton
• Gransmoor
• Haisthorpe
• Harpham
• Kilham
• Langtoft
• Lowthorpe
• Octon

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe Hall 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 Thorpe Hall.

Listed Buildings Near Thorpe Hall

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Thorpe Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Dairy at Thorpe Hall - 1.08 km

Grade II*

• Thorpe Hall - 1.05 km

Grade II

• Ice House at Thorpe Hall - 0.94 km
• Orangery at Thorpe Hall - 1.01 km
• Billiard Room at Thorpe Hall - 1.02 km
• Statue of Bacchus and Ariadne - 1.07 km
• Game Larder at Thorpe Hall - 1.1 km
• Bridge, Approximately 60 Metres South East of Stable Block at Thorpe Hall - 1.24 km
• Stable Block at Thorpe Hall - 1.25 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Thorpe Hall

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

• Low Caythorpe deserted medieval village, manorial complex and fishponds - 0.73 km
• Settlement site at Boynton Hall - 1.26 km
• Argam dykes - 1.42 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Low Caythorpe - 1.0 km S
• Rudston - 2.2 km SW
• Boynton - 2.2 km SE
• Boynton Hall - 2.2 km SE
• Grindale - 2.2 km NE
• Argam - 3.0 km N