Binnington in the Domesday Book (1086)
Binnington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burton
- Boythorpe
- Burton [Agnes]
- Butterwick
- Carnaby
- Fornetorp
- Ganton
- Gransmoor
- Haisthorpe
- Harpham
- Kilham
- Langtoft
- Lowthorpe
- Octon
- Rudston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Binnington 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 Binnington.
Listed Buildings Near Binnington
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Binnington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Nicholas - 1.08 km
Grade II
- Joiners Shop Approximately 20 Metres Northeast of Numbers 2 and 3 - 1.04 km
- Nos 2 and 3 and Attached Outbuilding - 1.06 km
- 26 and 28 and Outbuilding Attached to No. 28 - 1.15 km
- Garden Walls and Vine House Approximately 30 Metres North of Ganton Hall Cottage - 1.16 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Binnington
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Binnington:
- Staxton Brow entrenchment - 1.53 km
Binnington Today
Today Binnington lies within the administrative area of Willerby.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Binnington
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.
© Martin Dawes · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · 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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