The settlement of Welburn is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Welburn at 1 carucate of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Welburn supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, 4 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Welburn’s value at 1 shilling in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Welburn (1086)

Sheep: 30
Meadow: 3 acres
Woodland: 10 acres

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Welburn 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 Welburn.

Listed Buildings Near Welburn

Historic England records 24 listed buildings within about a mile of Welburn. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Carrmire Gates Wall and End Turrets - 0.38 km
The Pyramid and Surrounding Piers - 0.78 km
Pyramid Gatehouse and Flanking Wings - 1.13 km

Grade II*

Statue of figure playing a lyre and pedestal - 1.3 km

Grade II

Holly Bank - 0.51 km
Woodview - 0.59 km
Elm Tree House and Pigeon Cote Farmhouse - 0.6 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite Pigeoncote Farm - 0.61 km
Rose Cottage - 0.62 km
Pitcairn - 0.63 km
Temperance Inn Farmhouse - 0.63 km
The Crown and Cushion - 0.64 km
Chapel Garth - 0.64 km
Pear Tree House and Attached Outbuilding - 0.68 km
Cherry Tree House - 0.68 km
Rosedale House - 0.71 km
Reading Room - 0.71 km
Yew Tree House and Attached Railings and Gates to Front - 0.72 km
Manor House and Attached Flight of Steps to Front - 0.75 km
Chanting Hill Farmhouse - 0.76 km
The Grange - 0.8 km
Church of St John - 0.89 km
The Aviaries - 0.92 km
White Gate - 1.07 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Welburn

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Welburn:

Round barrow 300m east of Carrmire Gate - 0.07 km
Round barrow 400m SSW of Low Gaterley Cottages - 1.4 km

Welburn Today

Today Welburn lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 504 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 Welburn-on-Derwent on Wikipedia .