The settlement of Torisholme is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Torisholme is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word holmr, an island or patch of raised ground in marsh. 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 island’.

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 Torisholme.

Listed Buildings Near Torisholme

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Torisholme. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

3 and 5, Thorpe Avenue - 0.2 km
New Hall - 0.21 km
Park House and Attached Barn - 0.29 km
16, Slyne Road - 0.31 km
10 and 11, Torrisholme Square - 0.33 km
12, Torrisholme Square - 0.33 km
8 and 9, Torrisholme Square - 0.34 km
Gate Piers Approximately 5 Metres South West of Scale Hall - 1.16 km
Scale Hall - 1.16 km
Gate Piers Approximately 15 Metres East of Scale Hall - 1.17 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Torisholme

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Torisholme:

Torrisholme bowl barrow - 0.86 km

Torisholme Today

Today Torisholme lies within the administrative area of Morecambe, and the settlement recorded a population of 6,755 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 Torrisholme on Wikipedia .