Brayton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Brayton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Barkston

• Barkston
• Barlow
• Birkin
• Bramham
• Burton [Hall]
• Camblesforth
• Carlton
• Clifford
• Drax
• Fairburn
• Grimston [Grange]
• Hambleton
• Hazelwood [Castle]
• Hunchilhuse

The Meaning of the Name

The name Brayton 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 Brayton.

Listed Buildings Near Brayton

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Brayton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Wilfred - 0.56 km

Grade II

• Brayton Bridge - 0.45 km
• Milestone 0.1 Mile North of Junction With Barff Lane - 0.47 km
• The Vicarage - 0.62 km
• Selby Canal, Brayton Tunnel - 0.7 km

Brayton Today

Today Brayton lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 5,591 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 Brayton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Burton Hall - 2.2 km SW
• Selby - 2.2 km NE
• Thorpe Willoughby - 3.2 km W
• Barlow - 4.5 km SE
• Osgodby - 5.0 km NE
• Barlby - 5.0 km NE