Wheatley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Wheatley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Wheatley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wheatley.
Listed Buildings Near Wheatley
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Wheatley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Lock at Strawberry Lock - 0.67 km
- Church of St Mary - 0.67 km
- Nether Hall - 1.17 km
- Hall Cross Comprehensive School - 1.27 km
- Nos 4-9 (consec) Christchurch Terrace and attached railings, Thorne Road - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Wheatley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Wheatley:
- Wall of Roman fort - 1.43 km
Wheatley Today
Today Wheatley lies within the administrative area of Doncaster.
Read more about modern Wheatley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Doncaster - 1.4 km SW
- Bentley - 1.4 km NW
- Arksey - 2.2 km NW
- Long Sandall - 2.8 km NE
- Hexthorpe - 2.8 km SW
- Langthwaite - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around Wheatley
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.
© Ron Hann · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · 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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