Brafferton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Brafferton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

• Aldwark
• Alne
• Barnby [House]
• Barton [le Willows]
• Beningbrough
• Bossall
• Brandsby
• Bulmer
• Buttercrambe
• Carlton [Farm]
• Claxton
• Coneysthorpe
• Corburn
• Cornbrough [House]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Brafferton 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 Brafferton.

Listed Buildings Near Brafferton

Historic England records 33 listed buildings within about a mile of Brafferton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of St Peter - 0.33 km

Grade II

• Laurel Farmhouse - 0.25 km
• The Old Rectory - 0.25 km
• Brafferton Hall East Brafferton Hall West - 0.32 km
• Walls to Grounds of Brafferton Hall, to East, West and South of Hall - 0.34 km
• Rose and Crown House - 0.46 km
• The Oak Tree Public House - 0.46 km
• High Farm House - 0.48 km
• 2, Main Street - 0.48 km
• Helperby House - 0.49 km
• Dovecot to Rear of Kirkholme - 0.53 km
• Oak House - 0.53 km
• Kirkholme - 0.54 km
• Lime Garth - 0.63 km
• Golden Lion Public House Old Fountain Stores - 0.64 km
• Town Well - 0.64 km
• 1, Drury Lane - 0.65 km
• Dunroyal House - 0.65 km
• Fountain House - 0.65 km
• Dovecot to South of Dunroyal House - 0.67 km
• Old Star Cottage - 0.68 km
• Wall of Grove House Farmhouse, to East - 0.7 km
• Valley Shop - 0.71 km
• Grove House Farmhouse - 0.71 km

…and 9 more listed structures in the area.

Brafferton Today

Today Brafferton lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 311 at the 2011 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 Brafferton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Thornton Bridge - 1.0 km N
• Helperby - 1.0 km S
• Humburton - 2.2 km SW
• Cundall - 2.2 km NW
• Norton le Clay - 3.2 km W
• Crakehill - 3.2 km N