Yateholme in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Yateholme, entered under the hundred of Agbrigg in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Yateholme at 3 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Yateholme supported a recorded population of 18 villagers, 6 smallholders, 14 slaves, working 12 ploughs between them.
The survey records Yateholme’s value at 3 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Resources Recorded at Yateholme (1086)
- Cattle: 8
- Sheep: 159
- Horses (cobs): 1
- Meadow: 15 acres
- Woodland: 50 acres
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 Yateholme is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word holmr, an island or patch of raised ground in marsh. 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 island’.
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 Yateholme.
Yateholme Today
Today Yateholme lies within the administrative area of Holme Valley.
Read more about modern Holme on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [Yate]holme
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.
© Roger May · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger May · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · 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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