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

Other Settlements in Driffield

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Torp 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 Torp.

Listed Buildings Near Torp

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Torp. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Beech House - 0.66 km
16, Main Street - 0.78 km

Torp Today

Today Torp lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 180 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 Tibthorpe on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Tibthorpe - 0.0 km N
Kirkburn - 1.0 km E
Southburn - 2.2 km SE
Eastburn - 3.0 km E
Bainton - 3.0 km S
Neswick Hall - 3.2 km S

Heritage Around Torp

Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.

Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.

Torp in the Domesday Book (1086)