Welbury in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Welbury is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Welbury at 0.8 carucates of taxable land.

Other Settlements in Allerton

• Ainderby [Steeple]
• Appleton [Wiske]
• Arncliffe [Hall]
• Birkby
• Borrowby
• Brompton
• Cowesby
• Crosby [Grange]
• Dale [Town]
• Deighton
• Ellerbeck
• Foxton
• Girsby
• Hawnby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Welbury is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word burh, a fortified place, while the first element appears to represent a spring. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the a spring stronghold’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Welbury.

Listed Buildings Near Welbury

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

Grade II

• Church of St Leonard - 0.48 km
• Welbury House - 0.49 km
• Stables approximately 10 metres to south-east of Welbury House - 0.51 km

Welbury Today

Today Welbury lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 263 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 Welbury on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Deighton - 1.4 km SW
• Irby Manor - 2.2 km NE
• West Rounton - 2.2 km NE
• Appleton Wiske - 2.2 km NW
• Middleton - 2.2 km NW
• East Rounton - 3.2 km E