Whitwell on the Hill in the Domesday Book (1086)
Whitwell on the Hill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Bulford
- Aldwark
- Alne
- Barnby [House]
- Barton [le Willows]
- Beningbrough
- Bossall
- Brafferton
- Brandsby
- Bulmer
- Buttercrambe
- Carlton [Farm]
- Claxton
- Coneysthorpe
- Corburn
The Meaning of the Name
The name Whitwell on the Hill 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 Whitwell on the Hill.
Listed Buildings Near Whitwell on the Hill
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Whitwell on the Hill. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Michael - 0.95 km
- Kirkham Priory - 1.03 km
Grade II*
- Church of St John Evangelist - 0.45 km
Grade II
- South Lodge - 0.51 km
- Whitwell Hall Annexe - 0.72 km
- Railway Signal Box at Kirkham Abbey Station - 0.75 km
- Whitwell Hall - 0.76 km
- Kirkham Bridge - 0.82 km
- The School Room - 0.89 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.9 km
- Cross Stump Approximately 10 Metres North of Kirkham Priory Gatehouse - 0.93 km
- Kirkham Manor Farmhouse - 0.95 km
- Pond Farmhouse - 1.04 km
- Pair of Gate Piers at Hardy Flatts - 1.1 km
- Kirkham Hall - 1.13 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Whitwell on the Hill
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Whitwell on the Hill:
- Kirkham Bridge - 0.82 km
- Kirkham Priory Augustinian monastery: monastic precinct, three fishponds, and precinct boundary - 1.03 km
Whitwell on the Hill Today
Today Whitwell on the Hill lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 158 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 Whitwell-on-the-Hill on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Whitwell [on the Hill]
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.
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© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · 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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