Yapham in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Yapham is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Warter in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Warter
- Grimthorpe [Manor]
- Hawold
- Heslington
- Huggate
- Kilnwick [Percy]
- Langwith [Lodge]
- Meltonby
- Millington
- Naburn
- Warter
- Wetwang
- [Great] Givendale
- [Little] Givendale
- [North] Dalton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Yapham 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 Yapham.
Listed Buildings Near Yapham
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Yapham. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of Saint Martin - 0.58 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Yapham
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Yapham:
- Bolton Old Hall moated site - 1.48 km
Yapham Today
Today Yapham lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 222 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 Yapham on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Yapham
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.
© Dr Patty McAlpin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Patty McAlpin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · 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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