Wooldale in the Domesday Book (1086)
Wooldale is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Agbrigg
- Ackton
- Almondbury
- Austonley
- Bradley
- Cartworth
- Crigglestone
- Crofton
- Dalton
- Emley
- Farnley [Tyas]
- Flockton
- Fulstone
- Golcar
- Hepworth
The Meaning of the Name
The name Wooldale is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word dalr, a valley. 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 valley’.
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 Wooldale.
Listed Buildings Near Wooldale
Historic England records 102 listed buildings within about a mile of Wooldale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- 33,35,37,39, Totties Lane - 0.27 km
Grade II
- Ivy Cottage - 0.2 km
- 31, Totties Lane - 0.26 km
- 59-67, Totties Lane - 0.34 km
- 1,3,5, Sike Lane - 0.35 km
- 8,10,12,14, Sike Lane - 0.36 km
- Nos 54,56 and Barn - 0.37 km
- 69, Totties Lane - 0.37 km
- 71-81, Totties Lane - 0.39 km
- 73,75, Wooldale Road - 0.41 km
- Sunny Brow - 0.42 km
- 72,74, Wooldale Road - 0.43 km
- 69, Wooldale Road - 0.43 km
- 15,17,19,21, South Lane - 0.45 km
- 1,3,5, South Lane - 0.45 km
- 67, Wooldale Road - 0.46 km
- 55,57, Wooldale Road - 0.47 km
- 61,63, Wooldale Road - 0.47 km
- Whinney Bank Cottages - 0.49 km
- Building Adjoining Rear of Lord Nelson Public House - 0.49 km
- Wooldale Hall - 0.49 km
- Telephone Kiosk Outside Wooldale Methodist Chapel - 0.51 km
- Wooldale Methodist Church - 0.53 km
- 43, Wooldale Road - 0.58 km
…and 78 more listed structures in the area.
Wooldale Today
Today Wooldale lies within the administrative area of Holme Valley.
Read more about modern Wooldale on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Cartworth - 1.4 km SW
- Fulstone - 2.2 km NE
- Thurstonland - 2.2 km NE
- Hepworth - 2.2 km SE
- Upperthong - 3.0 km W
- Shepley - 4.1 km E
Heritage Around Wooldale
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.
© Geoff Pick · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Johnson · 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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