Buckton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Buckton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hunthow in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Hunthow

• Auburn
• Bempton
• Bessingby
• Boynton
• Boynton [Hall]
• Bridlington
• Easton
• Flamborough
• Flixton
• Foxholes
• Fraisthorpe
• Grindale
• Hilderthorpe
• Marton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Buckton 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.

Listed Buildings Near Buckton

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

Grade II*

• Church of St Michael - 0.62 km

Grade II

• 3 Pump Lane - 0.2 km
• Coverley House - 0.45 km
• 54, High Street - 0.48 km
• 12, Church Lane - 0.61 km
• Gravestone About 240 Metres South West of Manor Farmhouse - 0.62 km
• Bempton War Memorial - 0.63 km
• Bempton House - 0.66 km
• Manor Farmhouse - 0.67 km
• The Rectory - 0.73 km
• House to Right of Mill Farmhouse - 1.02 km
• Bempton Mill Farmhouse - 1.07 km
• Bempton Mill - 1.08 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Buckton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Buckton:

• Deserted medieval village of Newsham - 0.68 km

Buckton Today

Today Buckton lies within the administrative area of Bempton.

Read more about modern Buckton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Bempton - 1.0 km E
• Speeton - 3.6 km NW
• Marton - 3.6 km SE
• Sewerby - 4.1 km S
• Flamborough - 4.5 km SE
• Easton - 5.0 km SW