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Clayton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Morley in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Morley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Clayton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

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Clayton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Clayton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Clayton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

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Clayton West in the Domesday Book (1086)

Clayton West is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Staincross

The Meaning of the Name

The name Clayton West is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

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Cleasby in the Domesday Book (1086)

Cleasby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Cleasby is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word bý, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

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Cleaving Grange in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Cleaving Grange, entered under the hundred of Weighton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Weighton

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Cleaving Grange is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Cleckheaton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Cleckheaton, entered under the hundred of Morley in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Morley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Cleckheaton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

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Cleeton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Cleeton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Cleeton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. 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 farmstead’.

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Cliffe Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Cliffe Hall, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Cliffe Hall is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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Cliffe in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Cliffe, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Howden

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Cliffe is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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