The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Yeadon, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Yeadon at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Yeadon supported a recorded population of 3 smallholders, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey records Yeadon’s value at 8d 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.

The survey lists 2 manors at Yeadon under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Yeadon (1086)

Cattle: 2
Pigs: 1
Sheep: 41
Woodland: 6 acres

Other Settlements in Skyrack

The Meaning of the Name

The name Yeadon is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word dūn, a hill. 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 hill’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Yeadon

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Yeadon. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Rectory Hall - 1.26 km

Grade II

Church of St Andrew - 0.24 km
1 AND 3, TOWN STREET (See details for further address information) - 0.39 km
Yeadon Town Hall - 0.45 km
Willow Cottage - 0.45 km
26 and 24, Gill Lane - 1.08 km
Low Hall - 1.18 km
Trinity Church Sunday School - 1.25 km
Trinity Church - 1.26 km

Yeadon Today

Today Yeadon lies within the administrative area of Leeds, and the settlement recorded a population of 22,233 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Yeadon on Wikipedia .