The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Brearton, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The name Brearton 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 Brearton.

Listed Buildings Near Brearton

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Brearton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Brearton Chapel - 0.51 km
East View - 0.58 km
Brearton Hall - 0.72 km
Eagle House - 0.81 km

Brearton Today

Today Brearton lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 151 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 Brearton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Walkingham Hill - 2.0 km E
Susacres - 2.0 km W
Burton Leonard - 2.0 km N
Scotton - 2.0 km S
Nidd - 2.2 km SW
Farnham - 2.2 km SE

Heritage Around Brearton

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.

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Brearton in the Domesday Book (1086)