Thorpe Hill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Thorpe Hill at 0.1 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Thorpe Hill supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 3 smallholders.

The survey records Thorpe Hill’s value at 5d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Thorpe Hill (1086)

Pigs: 1
Meadow: 6 acres
Woodland: 40 acres

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thorpe Hill 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 Hill.

Listed Buildings Near Thorpe Hill

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Thorpe Hill. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II