Aughton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Aughton, entered under the hundred of Cave in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Cave
- Drewton
- Ellerton
- Everthorpe
- Foggathorpe
- Gribthorpe
- Hotham
- Laytham
- Melbourne
- Seaton [Ross]
- Thornton
- Yokefleet [Grange]
- [East] Cottingwith
- [High and Low] Hunsley
- [Kettle]thorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Aughton 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 Aughton.
Listed Buildings Near Aughton
Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Aughton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of All Saints - 0.48 km
Grade II
Scheduled Monuments Near Aughton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Aughton:
- Motte and bailey castle, fishpond and moated site north and east of Aughton church - 0.39 km
- Site of Ellerton Priory - 1.49 km
Aughton Today
Today Aughton lies within the administrative area of Ellerton.
Read more about modern Aughton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ellerton - 1.0 km N
- Bubwith - 2.2 km SE
- North Duffield - 2.8 km SW
- Gunby - 3.0 km S
- West Cottingwith - 3.2 km N
- Thorganby - 3.6 km NW
Heritage Around Aughton
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.
© stuart hartley · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© stuart hartley · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger Gilbertson · 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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