Upper Rawcliffe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Upper Rawcliffe, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Upper Rawcliffe is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word clif, a cliff or steep slope. 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 slope’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Upper Rawcliffe.
Listed Buildings Near Upper Rawcliffe
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Upper Rawcliffe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Milestone - 1.28 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Great Eccleston - 1.4 km SW
- Rawcliffe Hall - 2.0 km W
- Little Eccleston - 2.8 km SW
- Out Rawcliffe - 3.0 km W
- Aschebi - 3.0 km E
- St Michael’s on Wyre - 3.0 km E
Heritage Around [Upper] Rawcliffe
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.
© David Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bob Jenkins · 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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