Barton le Street in the Domesday Book (1086)
Barton le Street appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Appleton [le Moors]
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
- Chigomersc
The Meaning of the Name
The name Barton le Street 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 Barton le Street.
Listed Buildings Near Barton le Street
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Barton le Street. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Michael - 0.54 km
- Church of All Saints - 1.22 km
Grade II
- Barton House - 0.43 km
- Cross Base One Metre North of West End of Church of St Michael - 0.55 km
- The Old Smithy - 0.66 km
- Mile Post Approximately 500 Metres West of Appleton Le Street - 0.9 km
- West Grange Farmhouse and Attached Garage - 1.19 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Barton le Street
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Barton le Street:
- Iron Age settlement - 0.96 km
- Dovecote at Appleton-le-Street, 120m east of Whitefield Farm - 1.48 km
Barton le Street Today
Today Barton le Street lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 205 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 Barton-le-Street on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Appleton le Street - 1.4 km SE
- Newsham - 2.8 km NE
- Slingsby - 3.0 km W
- Amotherby - 3.2 km E
- Swinton - 3.2 km E
- Butterwick - 3.2 km N
Heritage Around Barton [le Street]
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.
© Roger Gilbertson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Pauline E · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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