Thorpe Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thorpe Hall, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
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 19 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
- Church of St Mary - 1.09 km
Grade II*
- Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over the River Tees - 0.1 km
- Whorlton Bridge - 0.11 km
- Thorpe Hall - 0.42 km
Grade II
- Toll House at North-west End of Whorlton Bridge - 0.13 km
- Font, Adjacent to South Porch of Church of St. Mary - 0.26 km
- The Conifers - 0.33 km
- Whorlton Croft - 0.39 km
- Wall and Attached Outbuilding to North West of Thorpe Hall - 0.42 km
- The Bridge Inn - 0.45 km
- 1-7, Grange Terrace - 0.55 km
- Lilac Cottage - 0.58 km
- 1-3, Grange Cottages - 0.61 km
- Outbuildings to North of Old Rectory, West House - 0.99 km
- Old Rectory West House - 1.0 km
- Mounting Block to South of Gates to Old Rectory - 1.01 km
- Wycliffe Old Rectory - 1.01 km
- Wall to North and East of Wycliffe Old Rectory - 1.01 km
- The Nest - 1.06 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Thorpe Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Thorpe Hall:
- Whorlton suspension bridge - 0.09 km
Thorpe Hall Today
Today Thorpe Hall lies within the administrative area of County Durham, and the settlement recorded a population of 170 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 Whorlton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Wycliffe - 1.0 km E
- Mortham Tower - 2.0 km W
- Rokeby Hall - 2.0 km W
- Girlington Hall - 2.2 km SE
- Hutton Magna - 2.8 km SE
- Ovington - 3.0 km E
Heritage Around Thorpe [Hall]
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.
© Oliver Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Oliver Dixon · 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.
Location
54.5255°N, -1.8377°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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