Whixley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Whixley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The name Whixley 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 Whixley.
Listed Buildings Near Whixley
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Whixley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of the Ascension - 0.44 km
Grade II
- Boundary Stone - 0.44 km
- Whixley Hall - 0.48 km
- Boundary Stone - 0.5 km
- Number 1 and 2 Barrack Yard - 0.52 km
- Rose Cottages or Derelict Cottages - 0.52 km
- The Old Cottage - 0.59 km
- Stone Gate Farmhouse With Forecourt Wall and Railings and Gate to North - 0.61 km
- Pear Tree House - 0.63 km
- Barn and Gin Gang to North of Laburnum’s Farm House - 0.64 km
- Stables to Rear of Laburnum’s Farm House - 0.64 km
- Laburnum’s Farm House - 0.66 km
- Thorpe Hill Farmhouse - 1.15 km
- Boundary Stone - 1.23 km
Whixley Today
Today Whixley lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 830 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 Whixley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Elwicks - 1.0 km N
- Thorpe Hill - 1.4 km NE
- Green Hammerton - 1.4 km SE
- Thornborough - 2.0 km W
- Little Ouseburn - 2.0 km N
- Thorpe Underwood - 2.2 km NE
Heritage Around Whixley
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.
© hayley green · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Carol Rose · 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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