Uncleby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Uncleby, entered under the hundred of Acklam in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Acklam
- Acklam
- Barthorpe [Grange]
- Bugthorpe
- Burythorpe
- Eddlethorpe
- Firby
- Fridaythorpe
- Garrowby [Hall]
- Howsham
- Kirby [Underdale]
- Kirkham
- Leavening
- Leppington
- Menethorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Uncleby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.
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 Uncleby.
Listed Buildings Near Uncleby
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Uncleby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of All Saints - 1.17 km
Grade II
- Manor House - 0.66 km
- Painsthorpe Hall - 1.14 km
- Cross-base to South of Church of All Saints - 1.19 km
- The Old Rectory - 1.22 km
- Beech Farmhouse - 1.26 km
- The Manor House - 1.27 km
- School Farm House - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Uncleby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 11 lie within roughly a mile of Uncleby:
- Round barrow south-west of Uncleby Wold Barn - 0.59 km
- Round barrow south west of Uncleby Wold Barn - 0.62 km
- Hanging Grimston barrow group: four bowl barrows on Uncleby Stoop - 0.65 km
- Wood Leys round barrow - 0.81 km
- Hanging Grimston barrow group: a bowl barrow 650m SSW of Thixendale Grange - 0.82 km
- Hanging Grimston barrow group: four bowl barrows and part of a cross dyke 600m SSW of Thixendale Grange - 0.84 km
- Hanging Grimston barrow group: three bowl barrows 600m south west of Thixendale Grange - 0.98 km
- Round barrow 250m north east of Painsthorpe Wold Cottages - 1.27 km
- Hanging Grimston barrow group: a bowl barrow 650m south west of Thixendale Grange - 1.27 km
- Round barrow 330m south east of Painsthorpe Wold Cottages - 1.48 km
…and 1 more.
Uncleby Today
Today Uncleby lies within the administrative area of Kirby Underdale.
Read more about modern Uncleby on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Painsthorpe - 1.0 km S
- Kirby Underdale - 1.4 km SW
- Hanging Grimston - 1.4 km NW
- Garrowby Hall - 2.8 km SW
- Thixendale - 3.6 km NE
- Acklam - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around Uncleby
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.
© Alan Walker · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Patty McAlpin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Patty McAlpin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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