The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Welwick, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Welwick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement, while the first element appears to represent a spring. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the a spring specialised farm’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Welwick

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

Grade I

Church of St Mary - 0.58 km

Welwick Today

Today Welwick lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 291 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 Welwick on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Weeton - 1.4 km SE
Thorpe Hill - 2.0 km W
Rysome Garth - 2.2 km NE
Holmpton - 2.8 km NE
Patrington - 3.2 km W
Out Newton - 4.0 km E

Heritage Around Welwick

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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Welwick in the Domesday Book (1086)