Wiganthorpe Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
Wiganthorpe Hall 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 Wiganthorpe Hall is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word þorp, an outlying or secondary farmstead. 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 outlying farm’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wiganthorpe Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Wiganthorpe Hall
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Wiganthorpe Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Ice House Approximately 60 Metres North of the Stable Block - 0.36 km
- The Stable Block - 0.41 km
- Moor House Farmhouse - 1.12 km
- Moor House Cow Byre - 1.13 km
- Moor House Stables, Granary and Cart Shed - 1.15 km
- Moor House Barn - 1.15 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Wiganthorpe Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 4 lie within roughly a mile of Wiganthorpe Hall:
- Round barrow 350m south west of Moor House Farm - 1.13 km
- Round barrow 150m north west of Home Farm - 1.2 km
- Round barrow 100m north west of Moor House Farm - 1.27 km
- Round barrow at Coronation Clump - 1.35 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Howthorpe Farm - 1.0 km E
- Scackleton - 2.0 km W
- Terrington - 2.2 km SE
- Ganthorpe - 2.8 km SE
- Hovingham - 3.0 km N
- Dalby - 3.2 km W
Heritage Around Wiganthorpe [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.
© Roger Gilbertson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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