Boynton Hall in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Boynton Hall is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hunthow in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Hunthow
- Auburn
- Bempton
- Bessingby
- Boynton
- Bridlington
- Buckton
- Easton
- Flamborough
- Flixton
- Foxholes
- Fraisthorpe
- Grindale
- Hilderthorpe
- Marton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Boynton Hall 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 Boynton Hall.
Listed Buildings Near Boynton Hall
Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Boynton Hall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Boynton Hall - 0.37 km
- Church of St Andrew - 0.5 km
Grade II*
- Garden House at Boynton Hall - 0.29 km
Grade II
- Outbuilding About 20 Metres West of Garden House at Boynton Hall - 0.27 km
- Bridge Approximately 85 Metres West of Boynton Hall - 0.32 km
- Gatepiers Approximately 50 Metres South-west of Boynton Hall - 0.36 km
- Pigeon House at Boynton Hall - 0.37 km
- Offices Adjoining Boynton Hall to Left - 0.38 km
- Dairy at Boynton Hall - 0.38 km
- Lodge to Boynton Hall - 0.47 km
- Gatepiers to Boynton Hall - 0.49 km
- Vicarage, Approximately 40 Metres to North of Church of St Andrew - 0.53 km
- Stable Block to Former Vicarage, Approximately 60 Metres North of Church of St Andrew - 0.56 km
- West Lawn Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining to North - 0.67 km
- Woollen Manufactory Approximately 400 Metres North East of Boynton Hall - 0.67 km
- Fond Brig - 0.9 km
- Carnaby Temple - 0.97 km
- 19, Grindale Road - 1.02 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Boynton Hall
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Boynton Hall:
- Sands Wood round barrow - 0.99 km
- Settlement site at Boynton Hall - 1.01 km
Boynton Hall Today
Today Boynton Hall lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 147 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 Boynton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Boynton - 0.0 km N
- Low Caythorpe - 2.0 km W
- Easton - 2.2 km NE
- Thorpe Hall - 2.2 km NW
- Carnaby - 2.2 km SE
- Bessingby - 2.8 km SE
Heritage Around Boynton [Hall]
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.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© JThomas · 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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