West Cottingwith in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of West Cottingwith, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Howden
- Asselby
- Babthorpe
- Barlby
- Barmby [on the Marsh]
- Barnhill [Hall]
- Belby [House]
- Bowthorpe
- Brackenholme
- Burland [House]
- Cavil
- Cliffe
- Cotness [Hall]
- Eastrington
- Hagthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name West Cottingwith is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word viðr, a wood. 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 wood’.
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 West Cottingwith.
Listed Buildings Near West Cottingwith
Historic England records 19 listed buildings within about a mile of West Cottingwith. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Helen - 0.66 km
Grade II
- Stables to Thorganby Hall - 0.6 km
- Coach House Hayloft and Dovecote to Thorangby Hall - 0.61 km
- Thorganby Hall - 0.63 km
- Gates and Piers to Stableyard at Thorganby Hall Approximately Fifteen Metres to North East of House - 0.64 km
- Gates, piers and wall to Thorganby Hall approximately 5 metres to north of house - 0.65 km
- Yew Tree Farm - 0.68 km
- Thorganby House - 0.71 km
- West Cottingwith Hall - 0.71 km
- Hedley House - 1.05 km
- The Elms - 1.17 km
- Sycamore House - 1.19 km
- Methodist Chapel - 1.23 km
- Church of St Mary - 1.24 km
- The Old Ship Inn - 1.25 km
- School House - 1.26 km
- North Hills Drawbridge, River Derwent - 1.26 km
- House 30 Metres to North of Church of St Mary - 1.27 km
- House 40 Metres North of the Old Ship Inn - 1.28 km
West Cottingwith Today
Today West Cottingwith lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 356 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thorganby - 1.0 km W
- East Cottingwith - 1.4 km NE
- Ellerton - 2.2 km SE
- Wheldrake - 3.2 km N
- Aughton - 3.2 km S
- Chetelestorp - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around [West] Cottingwith
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.
© Roger Gilbertson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Simon Huguet · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Glyn Drury · 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.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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