Brompton on Swale in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Brompton on Swale, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Brompton on Swale 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 Brompton on Swale.
Listed Buildings Near Brompton on Swale
Historic England records 35 listed buildings within about a mile of Brompton on Swale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Garden Walls of Brompton Grange With Main Gateway and Garden Buildings - 0.12 km
- Gate, Gate Posts and Railings to Grange Lea - 0.12 km
- Brompton Grange - 0.14 km
- Greystones - 0.2 km
- Phoenix House - 0.21 km
- Church of St Paul - 0.21 km
- West End - 0.21 km
- 37 Richmond Road - 0.23 km
- Home Farmhouse - 0.24 km
- Numbers 33 and 35 (Estrella Cottage) - 0.24 km
- Chapel House - 0.25 km
- Ivy Cottage - 0.25 km
- The Rosary - 0.25 km
- 20, Richmond Road - 0.26 km
- 22, Richmond Road - 0.26 km
- Sundial House - 0.27 km
- 2 Grange Road (Tylecote) and 21 Richmond Road (Swiss Cottage) - 0.27 km
- Cow Byre to North of Sundial House - 0.28 km
- Manor House - 0.29 km
- Laburnam Cottage - 0.29 km
- Inglenook - 0.3 km
- King William Iv - 0.37 km
- 3, Station Road - 0.39 km
- Brompton-on-Swale War Memorial - 0.54 km
…and 11 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Brompton on Swale
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Brompton on Swale:
- St Giles medieval hospital, post-medieval farmstead and Iron Age occupation site immediately north of St Giles Farm - 0.62 km
- Cataractonium Roman forts and town - 1.16 km
Brompton on Swale Today
Today Brompton on Swale lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,770 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 Brompton-on-Swale on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Brompton [on Swale]
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.
© Martin Dawes · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matt Baines · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · 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.
Location
54.3904°N, -1.6689°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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