Tockwith in the Domesday Book (1086)

Tockwith appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Ainsty

• Acaster [Malbis]
• Acaster [Selby]
• Acomb
• Appleton [Roebuck]
• Askham [Bryan]
• Askham [Richard]
• Bickerton
• Bilbrough
• Bilton
• Bishopthorpe
• Bithen
• Bolton [Percy]
• Catterton
• Colton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Tockwith is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word viðr, a wood. 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 wood’.

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 Tockwith.

Listed Buildings Near Tockwith

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

Grade II

• Poplar Lodge - 0.08 km
• Church of the Epiphany - 0.13 km
• Little Manor - 0.18 km
• Brewery Farmhouse - 0.22 km
• The Thatched Cottage - 0.24 km
• Pipe Hall - 0.27 km
• Montague House - 0.32 km

Tockwith Today

Today Tockwith lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,935 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 Tockwith on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Bickerton - 2.2 km SW
• Cattal - 2.2 km NW
• Old Thornville Hall - 2.2 km NW
• Bilton - 2.2 km SE
• Wilstrop Hall - 2.8 km NE
• Kirk Hammerton - 3.0 km N