The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Wintringham, entered under the hundred of Scard in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Scard

The Meaning of the Name

The name Wintringham is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word hām, a homestead or village. 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 homestead’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Wintringham

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Wintringham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Peter - 0.32 km

Grade II

Farmbuildings Aproximately 10 Metres North-west of Manor House Farmhouse - 0.39 km
Manor House Farmhouse - 0.4 km
Stable Building Approximately 50 Metres West of (Place Newton House) - 1.06 km
Place Newton and Attached Garden Walls on Each Side - 1.07 km
Stableyard Building Attached to Garden Wall on West Side of (Place Newton House) - 1.07 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Wintringham

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Wintringham:

A cross dyke on Knapton Wold, 500m west of West Farm - 1.05 km
Three round barrows on West Heslerton Wold - 1.52 km

Wintringham Today

Today Wintringham lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 201 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 Wintringham on Wikipedia .