Womersley is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Osgodcross

The Meaning of the Name

The name Womersley 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 Womersley.

Listed Buildings Near Womersley

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Womersley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Martin - 0.63 km

Grade II*

Womersley Park and Adjoining Coach-house and Stables - 0.6 km

Grade II

Pigeoncote to Home Farm - 0.48 km
Manor House - 0.55 km
Gate Piers and Wall to Womersley Park - 0.63 km
Went Farmhouse - 0.83 km
Low Farmhouse - 0.86 km
Dovecote to Low Farmhouse - 0.87 km
Village Pump and Trough - 1.13 km
Village Cross - 1.13 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Womersley

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

Womersley medieval settlement remains and Victorian ice house in Icehouse Park - 0.98 km

Womersley Today

Today Womersley lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 411 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 Womersley on Wikipedia .