Appleton Roebuck in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Appleton Roebuck is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Appleton Roebuck at 20 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Appleton Roebuck supported a recorded population of 23 villagers, 7 slaves, working 9 ploughs between them.
The survey records Appleton Roebuck’s value at 10 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Resources Recorded at Appleton Roebuck (1086)
- Mills: 1 mill (valued at 15d)
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 2 * 1 furlongs
Other Settlements in Ainsty
- Acaster [Malbis]
- Acaster [Selby]
- Acomb
- Askham [Bryan]
- Askham [Richard]
- Bickerton
- Bilbrough
- Bilton
- Bishopthorpe
- Bithen
- Bolton [Percy]
- Catterton
- Colton
- Copmanthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Appleton Roebuck 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 Roebuck.
Listed Buildings Near Appleton Roebuck
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Appleton Roebuck. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Church of All Saints - 0.27 km
- Appleton Roebuck War Memorial - 0.28 km
- Bell Hill House - 0.37 km
- Southfield - 0.37 km
- The Maltings - 0.39 km
- The Old Vicarage - 0.43 km
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - 0.43 km
- Roebuck Inn - 0.43 km
- Barn to Holme Green Farmhouse Approximately 4 Metres to North of House - 0.98 km
- Holme Green Farmhouse - 1.04 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Appleton Roebuck
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Appleton Roebuck:
- Brocket Hall moated site - 0.37 km
Appleton Roebuck Today
Today Appleton Roebuck lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 830 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 Roebuck on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Bolton Percy - 2.2 km SW
- Colton - 2.2 km NW
- Steeton Hall - 2.8 km NW
- Acaster Selby - 2.8 km SE
- Ryther - 3.0 km S
- Pallathorpe - 4.0 km W
Heritage Around Appleton [Roebuck]
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.
© Graham Hermon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andrew Whale · 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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