The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Wath, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Wath 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 Wath.

Listed Buildings Near Wath

Historic England records 20 listed buildings within about a mile of Wath. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Mary - 0.34 km
Gateway Adjacent to Wath Lodge - 0.74 km

Grade II

Table Tomb Approximately 2 Metres From East End of Church of St Mary - 0.33 km
Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres South of South Door of Church of St Mary - 0.35 km
Overthrow With Lamp Holder Over South Gateway to Church of St Mary - 0.35 km
Font in Graveyard of Church of St Mary, Against West Wall of South Transept - 0.35 km
Sundial in Graveyard of Church of St Mary, Approximately 6 Metres South of South Door - 0.35 km
Gates and Gate Piers, the Rectory - 0.36 km
Overthrow With Lamp Holder Over West Gateway to Church of St Mary - 0.36 km
The Rectory - 0.37 km
Garage Approximately 2 Metres West of Grammar School - 0.45 km
The Grammar School - 0.45 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.45 km
Ivy House - 0.57 km
Wath Lodge - 0.73 km
The Old House - 1.13 km
The Old Hall - 1.15 km
Boundary Wall With Gate-piers to Old Hall - 1.16 km
Ivy House - 1.23 km
North Farmhouse - 1.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Wath

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

Middleton Quernhow Hall - 1.14 km

Wath Today

Today Wath lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 237 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 Wath on Wikipedia .