Wide Open Farm in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Wide Open Farm is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey 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 origin of the name Wide Open Farm is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wide Open Farm.
Listed Buildings Near Wide Open Farm
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Wide Open Farm. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Giles - 1.19 km
Grade II*
- Skelton Manor - 1.17 km
Grade II
- Skelton Hall - 1.1 km
- Pyramid House - 1.24 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Wide Open [Farm]
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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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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