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

Other Settlements in Welton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Wauldby 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 Wauldby.

Listed Buildings Near Wauldby

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Wauldby. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Wauldby Today

Today Wauldby lies within the administrative area of Welton.

Read more about modern Wauldby on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Brantingham - 2.0 km W
Brantingham Thorpe - 2.0 km W
Toschetorp - 2.0 km W
Elloughton - 2.2 km SW
Welton - 2.2 km SW
Riplingham - 3.0 km N

Heritage Around Wauldby

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.

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Wauldby in the Domesday Book (1086)