Brandsby
village in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Brandsby is a village in North Yorkshire, England. The village is the main constituent of the Brandsby-cum-Stearsby civil parish. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book. It lies between Easingwold and Hovingham, some 12.3 miles (19.8 km) north of York.
History
The village toponymy is of Scandinavian origin named after a Norseman called Brand and the suffix of by meaning settlement or habitation. At the time of the Norman conquest, it was held by Cnut, son of Karli and afterwards by Hugh, son of Baldric. Later the village and the surrounding lands were given to Baron Roger de Mowbray. It was part of the Bulford Hundred. The Baron left the lordship of the manor to Nicholas de Riparia (or de le Ryver, or Delariver).
In the reign of Henry VIII, Thomas Delariver enclosed common land used as pasture by Brandsby farmers near Down Wood.
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This entry incorporates text from “Brandsby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.