Whittingham Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Whittingham Hall, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Whittingham Hall is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village. 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 homestead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Whittingham Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Whittingham Hall
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Whittingham Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Barn Circa 25 Metres East of Slaters Farmhouse - 0.45 km
- Slaters Farmhouse - 0.47 km
- Threlfalls Farmhouse - 0.59 km
- Pudding Pie Nook - 1.18 km
- Westfield Farmhouse - 1.24 km
- Chingle Old Hall (With Bridge Over Moat) - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Whittingham Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Whittingham Hall:
- Chingle Hall moated site - 1.27 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Goosnargh - 1.0 km E
- Threlfall’s Farm - 1.4 km SW
- Broughton - 2.8 km SW
- Newsham - 3.0 km W
- Barton - 3.2 km W
- Haighton Hall - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Whittingham [Hall]
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.
© Keith Wright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Bond · 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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