Bilton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Bilton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

• Addlethorpe
• Aismunderby
• Aldfield
• Allerton [Mauleverer]
• Arkendale
• Askwith
• Azerley
• Barrowby [Grange]
• Beckwith [House]
• Besthaim
• Bestham
• Bewerley
• Birstwith
• Bramley [Grange]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bilton 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 Bilton.

Listed Buildings Near Bilton

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

Grade II*

• Parish Church of St John - 1.24 km

Grade II

• Gardener’s Arms - 0.2 km
• Gardner’s Arms Cottages - 0.22 km
• Barn, West of Gardener’s Arms - 0.22 km
• Prospect House - 0.36 km
• Endowed School - 1.13 km
• Regional Library - 1.22 km
• Lamp Post - 1.25 km
• Nidd Viaduct Over River Nidd - 1.25 km
• St Johns Church Hall - 1.28 km

Bilton Today

Today Bilton lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,409 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Bilton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Scotton - 2.2 km NE
• Scriven - 3.2 km E
• Killinghall - 3.2 km W
• Nidd - 3.2 km N
• Knaresborough - 4.1 km E
• Brearton - 4.1 km N