The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bickerton, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Bickerton at 2.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Bickerton supported a recorded population of 3 villagers, 8 smallholders, working 3 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Bickerton was worth 3 shillings, up from 2 shillings before the Conquest – which sets it apart from the many nearby villages left waste or devalued.

Resources Recorded at Bickerton (1086)

Cattle: 2
Pigs: 32
Sheep: 52
Meadow: 10 acres

Other Settlements in Ainsty

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bickerton 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 Bickerton.

Listed Buildings Near Bickerton

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Bickerton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II