The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ugthorpe, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Ugthorpe at 8 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Ugthorpe supported a recorded population of 33 villagers, 7 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 13 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Ugthorpe was worth 12 shillings, up from 11 shillings before the Conquest – which sets it apart from the many nearby villages left waste or devalued.

Resources Recorded at Ugthorpe (1086)

Mills: 2 mills (valued at 10d)
Meadow: 50 acres

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ugthorpe is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.

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 Ugthorpe.

Listed Buildings Near Ugthorpe

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Ugthorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

The Old Hall - 0.48 km

Grade II

Pump Farmhouse - 0.26 km
Cartshed to east of Pump Farmhouse - 0.27 km
Barn to West of Pump Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached - 0.27 km
Roman Catholic Church of St Anne - 0.38 km
Ugthorpe House - 0.4 km
Hall Cottage - 0.47 km
Barn to North-east of the Old Hall - 0.47 km
Broom House Farmhouse - 1.2 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Ugthorpe

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

Round barrow on Ugthorpe Moor known as Loose Howe, 130m south west of Day Well House - 1.31 km

Ugthorpe Today

Today Ugthorpe lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 202 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 Ugthorpe on Wikipedia .