Appleton le Moors in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Appleton le Moors is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Barton [le Street]
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
- Chigomersc
The Meaning of the Name
The name Appleton le Moors 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’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Appleton le Moors.
Listed Buildings Near Appleton le Moors
Historic England records 26 listed buildings within about a mile of Appleton le Moors. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Christ Church - 0.41 km
Grade II
- High Cross - 0.26 km
- Low Cross - 0.34 km
- Mullion Court St Mary’s - 0.39 km
- Appleton le Moors War Memorial - 0.43 km
- Ivy Dene - 0.53 km
- House Immediately South of Orchard Cottage - 0.53 km
- The Moors Inn - 0.56 km
- New Inn House - 0.58 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk outside Ryecroft - 0.58 km
- Moorfield - 0.59 km
- Sellars House - 0.6 km
- Pear Tree Cottage - 0.62 km
- Woodlands - 0.66 km
- Rose Marie Lodge - 0.67 km
- Hardings - 0.67 km
- The Firs - 0.69 km
- West View - 0.75 km
- School House and the Village House (Shown As the Old Cottage on O.s. Map) - 0.77 km
- Hazelwood - 0.78 km
- East View - 0.79 km
- Town End Farmhouse - 0.82 km
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings to Right and Rear - 0.84 km
- Nutholme - 1.07 km
…and 2 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Appleton le Moors
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Appleton le Moors:
- High Cross wayside cross on Kirkgate Lane, north of Appleton-le-Moors - 0.26 km
- Low Cross, a reused standing stone on Kirkgate Lane in Appleton-le-Moors - 0.33 km
- Nutholm cross dyke, 100m south of Appleton Mill Farm - 1.26 km
Appleton le Moors Today
Today Appleton le Moors lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 161 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 Appleton-le-Moors on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Spaunton - 1.4 km NW
- Cropton - 2.2 km NE
- Baschebi - 2.2 km NW
- Baschesbi - 2.2 km NW
- Lastingham - 2.2 km NW
- Sinnington - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Appleton [le Moors]
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Colin Grice · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Grice · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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