The settlement of Barton le Willows is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The name Barton le Willows 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 Willows.

Listed Buildings Near Barton le Willows

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Barton le Willows. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Barton le Willows Today

Today Barton le Willows lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 212 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-Willows on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Crambe - 2.2 km NE
Howsham - 2.2 km SE
Whitwell on the Hill - 2.2 km NE
Harton - 2.2 km SW
Foston - 2.8 km NW
Bossall - 3.0 km S

Heritage Around Barton [le Willows]

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.

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Barton le Willows in the Domesday Book (1086)