Thrintoft in the Domesday Book (1086)

Thrintoft appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, 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 name Thrintoft is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word topt, a homestead plot. 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 homestead plot’.

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 Thrintoft.

Listed Buildings Near Thrintoft

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Thrintoft. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Former Chapel of St Mary Magdalen - 0.87 km

Grade II

• Bellframe With Bell, Approximately 3 Metres to South of Ladyfield Farmhouse - 0.56 km
• Ladyfield Farmhouse - 0.57 km

Thrintoft Today

Today Thrintoft lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 134 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 Thrintoft on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Ainderby Steeple - 1.4 km SE
• Morton upon Swale - 2.0 km S
• Yafforth - 2.2 km NE
• Scruton - 2.2 km SW
• Little Langton - 2.8 km NW
• Warlaby - 2.8 km SE