Wickersley in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Wickersley, 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 Wickersley 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 Wickersley.
Listed Buildings Near Wickersley
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Wickersley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Barn at Wickersley Grange Farm approximately 30 metres to south west of farmhouse - 0.24 km
- Remains of Medieval Coffin Adjacent to South Wall of Church of St Alban - 0.29 km
- Church of St Alban - 0.3 km
- Pair of Grave Stones to the Bower Family Situated Approximately 10 Metres to South of Nave of Church of St Alban - 0.3 km
- Gazebo Approximately 50 Metres to East of Wickersley Grange - 0.36 km
- 35 and 37, Morthen Road - 0.39 km
- Wickersley Old Hall - 0.4 km
- Wickersley Hall - 0.48 km
Wickersley Today
Today Wickersley lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,677 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 Wickersley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Bramley - 2.2 km NE
- Newhall Grange - 3.0 km E
- Hellaby - 3.2 km E
- Whiston - 3.2 km W
- Brampton en le Morthen - 3.2 km S
- Dalton - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around Wickersley
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.
© Dave Thackery · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© emily gosse · 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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