The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Yearsley, entered under the hundred of Yarlestre in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Yarlestre

The Meaning of the Name

The name Yearsley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. 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 clearing’.

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

Listed Buildings Near Yearsley

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Yearsley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Church of Holy Trinity - 0.13 km
Former Wombwell Arms - 0.14 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Yearsley

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 15 lie within roughly a mile of Yearsley:

Round barrow 150m north of Wombwell Arms - 0.23 km
Two round barrows 200m NNE of Wombwell Arms - 0.29 km
Round barrow 50m south east of Windyridge Farm - 0.3 km
Round barrow 50m east of Windyridge Farm - 0.31 km
Two round barrows on Yearsley Moor 260m SSE of High Lions’ Lodge - 1.02 km
Round barrow on Yearsley Moor 230m SSE of High Lions’ Lodge - 1.05 km
Round barrow 800m east of Windyridge Farm - 1.06 km
Round barrow on Yearsley Moor 330m SSW of High Lions’ Lodge - 1.11 km
Round barrow 450m south west of Coney Hill Farm - 1.15 km
Round barrow 500m SSW of Coney Hill Farm - 1.15 km

…and 5 more.

Yearsley Today

Today Yearsley lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 117 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 Yearsley on Wikipedia .