Yafforth in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Yafforth, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

• Achebi
• Agglethorpe
• Ainderby [Mires]
• Ainderby [Quernhow]
• Aiskew
• Aldbrough
• Allerthorpe [Hall]
• Ascam
• Ascham
• Asebi
• Aske [Hall]
• Askrigg
• Aysgarth
• Baldersby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Yafforth is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word ford, a river crossing. 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 ford’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Yafforth

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

Grade II

• Yafforth Bridge - 0.03 km
• The Old Hall - 0.13 km
• Church of All Saints - 0.17 km
• Wall and Gate Piers in Front of Yafforth House - 0.24 km
• Yafforth House - 0.26 km
• Yafforth Lodge - 0.44 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Yafforth

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

• Howe Hill motte castle - 0.53 km

Yafforth Today

Today Yafforth lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 159 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 Yafforth on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Romanby - 1.4 km SE
• Thrintoft - 2.2 km SW
• Northallerton - 2.2 km SE
• Ainderby Steeple - 2.2 km SW
• Warlaby - 3.0 km S
• Brompton - 3.6 km NE