Bolton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Bolton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Pocklington
- Allerthorpe
- Barmby [Moor]
- Belthorpe
- Bielby
- Burnby
- Chetelstorp
- Deighton
- Elvington
- Escrick
- Everingham
- Fangfoss
- Gowthorpe
- Greenwick
- Hayton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Bolton 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 Bolton.
Listed Buildings Near Bolton
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Bolton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Fangfoss Hall - 1.26 km
- Church of St Martin - 1.27 km
Grade II
- The Manor House - 1.21 km
- Stables to Fangfoss Hall - 1.28 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Bolton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Bolton:
- Bolton Old Hall moated site - 0.58 km
Bolton Today
Today Bolton lies within the administrative area of Fangfoss.
Read more about modern Bolton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Bolton
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Charles Rispin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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