An oddly named village near Whitby, North Yorkshire
The earliest notice of this place occurs in Domesday Book, - where the name is written, by the Norman scribe Ugleberdesbi, and in later documents it is sometimes spelt Hugelbardebi, both of which are forms of the same personal name Uglebard, and the Danish affix by signifying a dwelling or farmstead. The present form, Ugglebarnby, is evidently a corruption of the original name, and is probably not older than the Reformation.
At the time of the Domesday Survey, Ugglebarnby was a soke of Whitby, and, with the rest of the manor, was wasted by the Conqueror in 1069.