Waxholme is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Waxholme is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word holmr, an island or patch of raised ground in marsh. 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 island’.

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 Waxholme.

Listed Buildings Near Waxholme

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Waxholme. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Shaw Farmhouse - 1.27 km

Waxholme Today

Today Waxholme lies within the administrative area of Rimswell.

Read more about modern Waxholme on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Rimswell - 1.4 km SW
Redmere - 1.4 km SE
Owthorne - 2.2 km SE
Withernsea - 2.8 km SE
Tunstall - 2.8 km NW
Great and Little Newsome - 3.6 km SW

Heritage Around Waxholme

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.

St. Nicholas Church & the wreck of the billy boy (2006)
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

All Saints Parish Church - Grass Management Team (2005)
© Stephen Horncastle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Stone Cross at All Saints Church, Roos (2006)
© Paul Glazzard · 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.

Waxholme in the Domesday Book (1086)