York Historic Environment Record

Naburn has two entries in the Domesday Book:

Entry 1: 4 ploughlands, 30 acres meadow and one woodland, Robert Tosny, and Lord in 1086, Berengar of Tosny, tenant-in-chief in 1086.

Entry 2: One ploughland, lord and tenant-in-chief in 1086, King William.

The River Ouse was tidal through to the north of York, until a weir was built in 1741, and a lock opened in 1757, a mile south of the village. The York to Selby railway line passed to the north of the village between 1871 and 1964.
A chapel at Naburn was first mentioned in 1353 and St. Nicholas's chapel, built in the grounds of Naburn Hall was referred to in 1433. This was taken down and rebuilt around 1870.
A Wesleyan chapel was built in Back Lane in 1818, then replaced in 1857 by a larger chapel near to the village centre (location of development site). By 1865 the Wesleyans were also attending the parish church of St. Matthew and the numbers for the chapel decreased. The chapel was closed in 1970.
A farm-house called Naburn Hill or White Cock Hall, beside the York road in the north-east of the parish, was used for Wesleyan Methodist worship in 1851 and was registered for the purpose in 1853; it had ceased to be so used by 1896.

Pastsearch, 2018, Chapel House Naburn WB (Unpublished document). SYO2081.