Bempton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hunthow in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Hunthow

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bempton 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 Bempton.

Listed Buildings Near Bempton

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Bempton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Michael - 0.63 km

Grade II

Bempton House - 0.54 km
The Rectory - 0.61 km
12, Church Lane - 0.65 km
Bempton War Memorial - 0.66 km
Manor Farmhouse - 0.7 km
54, High Street - 0.71 km
Coverley House - 0.73 km
Gravestone About 240 Metres South West of Manor Farmhouse - 0.92 km
3 Pump Lane - 1.18 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Bempton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Bempton:

Round barrow on Metlow Hill, 300m WSW of Wandale Farm - 0.8 km
Deserted medieval village of Newsham - 0.89 km

Bempton Today

Today Bempton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,025 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 Bempton on Wikipedia .