The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Ascam, 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 Ascam 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.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Ascam.

Listed Buildings Near Ascam

Historic England records 32 listed buildings within about a mile of Ascam. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Stable Block Approximately 5 Metres to West of the Vicarage - 0.44 km
The Vicarage - 0.44 km
Blue Lion Stables - 0.46 km
The Blue Lion - 0.46 km
Church of St John the Evangelist - 0.47 km
Old Holly Tree - 0.47 km
1, East Witton - 0.5 km
Old School With Railings, Gate and Gate-piers - 0.51 km
10, East Witton - 0.53 km
12, East Witton - 0.54 km
Reading Room - 0.54 km
11, East Witton - 0.54 km
14, East Witton - 0.55 km
Grange Farmhouse - 0.56 km
Cover Bridge - 0.56 km
Pump on Green - 0.57 km
Hutchinson’s Shop (Post Office) - 0.6 km
42, East Witton - 0.6 km
Cover Bridge Inn - 0.6 km
22, East Witton - 0.61 km
Low Thorpe House - 0.69 km
37, East Witton - 0.7 km
Town End Farmhouse - 0.7 km
38, East Witton - 0.71 km

…and 8 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Ascam

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Ascam:

Ulshaw Bridge - 0.75 km

Ascam Today

Today Ascam lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 225 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 East Witton on Wikipedia .