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

Other Settlements in Yarlestre

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Upsall is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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

Listed Buildings Near Upsall

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Upsall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Garden Walls to South, to West and to North of Kirby Knowle Castle - 0.27 km
Statue Approximately 10 Metres to West of Kirby Knowle Castle - 0.27 km
Kirby Knowle Castle - 0.3 km
Gatehouse to Upsall Castle, to West of Garden Cottage and Wall to Right - 0.41 km
Garden Cottage and Walls - 0.42 km
Remains of Castle Walls to South and West of Upsall Castle - 0.55 km
Castle Farm - 1.01 km
Group of Font and Two Cross Bases With Shafts Approximately 5 Metres to South West of Porch of Church of St Wilfrid - 1.24 km
Church of St Wilfrid - 1.24 km
Knowle House - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Upsall

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Upsall:

Upsall Castle: a quadrangular castle - 0.53 km
Round barrow 180m NNE of St Wilfred’s Church - 1.13 km
Kirby Knowle medieval settlement 220m west and 150m south west of Manor House Farm - 1.22 km

Upsall Today

Today Upsall lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 60 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 Upsall on Wikipedia .