Ulley in the Domesday Book (1086)

Ulley is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

• Adwick [le Street]
• Adwick [upon Dearne]
• Armthorpe
• Aston
• Attercliffe
• Auckley
• Aughton [Hall]
• Austerfield
• Balby
• Barnbrough
• Barnby [Dun]
• Bentley
• Bilham [House]
• Billingley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ulley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Ulley.

Listed Buildings Near Ulley

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Ulley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Ulley Hall - 0.06 km
• Garden Wall With Gateway at Ulley Hall - 0.06 km
• Dovecote and Attached Outbuilding to South West of Ulley Hall - 0.08 km
• Ulley Grange - 0.11 km
• 23, Main Street - 0.15 km

Ulley Today

Today Ulley lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 177 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 Ulley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Aughton Hall - 1.4 km SW
• Aston - 2.0 km S
• Brampton en le Morthen - 2.2 km NE
• Treeton - 3.0 km W
• Whiston - 3.6 km NW
• Orgreave - 4.1 km W