Upper Denby in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Upper Denby, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Agbrigg
- Ackton
- Almondbury
- Austonley
- Bradley
- Cartworth
- Crigglestone
- Crofton
- Dalton
- Emley
- Farnley [Tyas]
- Flockton
- Fulstone
- Golcar
- Hepworth
The Meaning of the Name
The name Upper Denby 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 Upper Denby.
Listed Buildings Near Upper Denby
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Upper Denby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Barn at Denby Grange and Nurseries Adjoining But at 90 Degrees to Main Range - 0.57 km
- 6.25 Miles Post, 0.25 Mile West of Junction With Grange Lane - 0.85 km
- Briestfield Wesleyan Methodist Church - 0.95 km
- Barn at Rear of Orchard Farm House - 1.08 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Upper Denby
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Upper Denby:
Upper Denby Today
Today Upper Denby lies within the administrative area of Kirkburton.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Lower Whitley - 1.4 km NW
- Flockton - 2.0 km S
- Thornhill - 2.2 km NE
- Shitlington - 3.2 km E
- Lepton - 3.2 km W
- Emley - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around [Upper] Denby
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.
© Donald Wilkinson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Nigel Homer · 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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