West Hardwick in the Domesday Book (1086)
West Hardwick is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Osgodcross
- Arksey
- Badsworth
- Beal
- Burgh[wallis]
- Campsall
- Darrington
- Featherstone
- Ferry [Fryston]
- Hamphall [Stubbs]
- Hensall
- Hessle
- Kellington
- Knottingley
- Minsthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name West Hardwick is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wīc, a dwelling, dairy farm or trading settlement. 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 specialised farm’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as West Hardwick.
Listed Buildings Near West Hardwick
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of West Hardwick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
Grade II
- Bridge and Boat House With Associated Basin at East End of Lower Lake - 1.08 km
- Little Went Bridge - 1.08 km
- Huntwick Grange - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near West Hardwick
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of West Hardwick:
West Hardwick Today
Today West Hardwick lies within the administrative area of Wakefield, and the settlement recorded a population of 35 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 West Hardwick on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Purston Jaglin - 1.4 km NE
- Nostell Priory - 1.4 km SW
- Hessle - 2.2 km SE
- High and Low Ackworth - 3.0 km E
- Ackton - 3.0 km N
- Snydale - 3.2 km N
Heritage Around [West] Hardwick
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.
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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