Water Fryston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Water Fryston, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Osgodcross
- Arksey
- Badsworth
- Beal
- Burgh[wallis]
- Campsall
- Darrington
- Featherstone
- Ferry [Fryston]
- Hamphall [Stubbs]
- Hensall
- Hessle
- Kellington
- Knottingley
- Minsthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Water Fryston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, 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’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Water Fryston.
Listed Buildings Near Water Fryston
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Water Fryston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Cart Shed Approximately 75 Metres South South West of Fryston Hall Farmhouse - 0.34 km
- Gate Piers Approximately 50 Metres North West of Fryston Hall Farmhouse - 0.34 km
- Stable Block Approximately 50 Metres South West of Fryston Hall Farmhouse - 0.37 km
- Gatepiers Approximately 20 Metres South of Stable Block at Fryston Hall Farm - 0.37 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Wheldale - 1.0 km W
- Fairburn - 1.4 km NE
- Newton Wallis - 2.2 km NW
- Ferry Fryston - 2.8 km SE
- Ledsham - 3.2 km N
- Glass Houghton - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around [Water] Fryston
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 Pickersgill · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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