Winestead in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Winestead is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

• Andrebi
• Burstwick
• Camerton [Hall]
• Dimlington
• Easington
• Grimston
• Halsham
• Hilston
• Hollym
• Holmpton
• Keyingham
• Kilnsea
• Monkwith
• Newton [Garth]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Winestead is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word stede, a place or site. 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 site’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Winestead.

Listed Buildings Near Winestead

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Winestead. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Germain - 0.37 km

Grade II*

• The White Hall - 0.47 km

Grade II

• Column-base Approximately 2 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St Germain - 0.36 km
• Enholmes Brick and Tile Works - 0.38 km
• Stable/coach House Range at the White Hall - 0.51 km
• Urn Approximately 40 Metres West of the Old Rectory - 0.72 km
• The Old Rectory and Coach-house Adjoining to East - 0.75 km
• Pair of Urns Flanking Path Approximately 40 Metres North of the Old Rectory - 0.8 km
• Urn Approximately 40 Metres North of the Old Rectory - 0.81 km
• Winestead Grange Farmhouse - 0.83 km
• Milestone Approximately 30 Metres North West of Junction With Winestead Ings Lane - 0.88 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Winestead

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Winestead:

• Winestead Manor moated site - 0.32 km

Winestead Today

Today Winestead lies within the administrative area of Patrington.

Read more about modern Winestead on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Patrington - 2.2 km SE
• Ottringham - 3.2 km W
• Great and Little Newsome - 3.2 km N
• Thorpe Hill - 3.6 km SE
• Halsham - 3.6 km NW
• Hollym - 5.4 km E