Brampton en le Morthen is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Brampton en le Morthen at 9 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Brampton en le Morthen supported a recorded population of 13 villagers, 8 smallholders, 2 freemanmen, working 8 ploughs between them.

The survey records Brampton en le Morthen’s value at 4 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Brampton en le Morthen (1086)

Meadow: 1 * 0.5 leagues
Woodland: 2 * 1 furlongs

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Brampton en le Morthen 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 Brampton en le Morthen.

Listed Buildings Near Brampton en le Morthen

Historic England records 19 listed buildings within about a mile of Brampton en le Morthen. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*