Warlaby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Warlaby 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 Warlaby.

Listed Buildings Near Warlaby

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

Grade I

Church of Saint Helen - 1.29 km

Grade II

Scheduled Monuments Near Warlaby

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Warlaby:

Howden Bridge - 0.75 km

Warlaby Today

Today Warlaby lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 39 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 Warlaby on Wikipedia .