The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Buckton Holms, entered under the hundred of Scard in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Buckton Holms at 0.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Buckton Holms supported a recorded population of 3 smallholders, 3 slaves.

The survey records Buckton Holms’s value at 10d 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.

Other Settlements in Scard

The Meaning of the Name

The name Buckton Holms 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 Buckton Holms.

Listed Buildings Near Buckton Holms

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Buckton Holms. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*