Wetwang in the Domesday Book (1086)
Wetwang appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warter in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Warter
- Grimthorpe [Manor]
- Hawold
- Heslington
- Huggate
- Kilnwick [Percy]
- Langwith [Lodge]
- Meltonby
- Millington
- Naburn
- Warter
- Yapham
- [Great] Givendale
- [Little] Givendale
- [North] Dalton
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Wetwang is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wetwang.
Listed Buildings Near Wetwang
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Wetwang. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Nicholas - 0.53 km
Grade II
- Wetwang House - 0.44 km
- Woods Farmhouse - 0.47 km
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.48 km
- Graveslab to 2 Children 5 Metres to North West of North Entrance to Church of St Nicholas - 0.53 km
- Outbuildings to East of Thorndale Farmhouse - 0.61 km
Wetwang Today
Today Wetwang lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 749 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 Wetwang on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Wetwang
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.
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andy Beecroft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© GRACE · 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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