Thorpe Hesley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Thorpe Hesley, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Thorpe Hesley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Thorpe Hesley.
Listed Buildings Near Thorpe Hesley
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Thorpe Hesley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- 67-71, Thorpe Street - 0.24 km
- Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.5 km
- War Memorial West of Church of the Holy Trinity - 0.5 km
- Hesley Hall - 0.7 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Thorpe Hesley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Thorpe Hesley:
Thorpe Hesley Today
Today Thorpe Hesley lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,439 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Thorpe Hesley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Wentworth - 2.2 km NE
- Ecclesfield - 2.8 km SW
- Greasbrough - 4.1 km E
- Hoyland Nether - 4.1 km N
- Tankersley - 4.2 km NW
- Kimberworth - 4.2 km SE
Heritage Around Thorpe [Hesley]
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.
© Richard Whitham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger May · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Charlton · 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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