Thurnscoe appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Thurnscoe at 0.8 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Thurnscoe supported a recorded population of 6 smallholders, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Thurnscoe’s value at 2 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Resources Recorded at Thurnscoe (1086)

Meadow: 6 acres

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Thurnscoe 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 Thurnscoe.

Listed Buildings Near Thurnscoe

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Thurnscoe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Hall Farmhouse - 0.11 km
Thurnscoe War Memorial - 0.18 km
Stable Block and Dovecote Approximately 20 Metres to North of Thurnscoe Hall - 0.23 km
Thurnscoe Hall - 0.26 km
Low Grange - 0.59 km
Church of St Helen - 0.61 km
Church of St John and St Mary Magdalene - 1.18 km

Thurnscoe Today

Today Thurnscoe lies within the administrative area of Barnsley, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,687 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 Thurnscoe on Wikipedia .