West Hauxwell is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name West Hauxwell is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word wella, a spring or stream. 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 spring’.

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

Listed Buildings Near West Hauxwell

Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of West Hauxwell. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of Saint Oswald - 0.39 km

Grade II*

Hauxwell Hall - 0.44 km

Grade II

Laurel Bank - 0.35 km
Village Farmhouse - 0.35 km
Wood Cottage - 0.36 km
Group of 10 Medieval Tombstones and 1 Column Base at Church of Saint Oswald - 0.4 km
Two Small Tombstones Flanking Priest’s Door of Church of Saint Oswald’s - 0.4 km
Tomb Approximately 10 Metres South of Tower of Church of Saint Oswald - 0.41 km
Gate Piers, Gates and Railings Approximately 100 Metres East of Church of Saint Oswald’s - 0.41 km
Saxon Cross Shaft Approximately 10 Metres to South of Church of Saint Oswald’s - 0.41 km
Archway Approximately 15 Metres North of North-east Corner of Hauxwell Hall - 0.42 km
Office Range Approximately 50 Metres to North of Hauxwell Hall - 0.44 km
Stable Block Adjoining Hauxwell Hall at Right Angles on North-west Corner - 0.46 km
1 and 2, Pump Street - 0.47 km
Bell Tower, Approximately 7 Metres West of South Front of Hauxwell Hall - 0.47 km
Obelisk - 0.56 km
Hauxwell Mill - 0.57 km
East Ayrlow Banks - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near West Hauxwell

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of West Hauxwell:

West Hauxwell churchyard cross - 0.41 km

West Hauxwell Today

Today West Hauxwell lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 9 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 Hauxwell on Wikipedia .