Burneston in the Domesday Book (1086)

Burneston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, 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 Burneston 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 Burneston.

Listed Buildings Near Burneston

Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Burneston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Lambert - 0.53 km

Grade II*

• The Almshouses - 0.52 km

Grade II

• Tombstone to Francis Rund Approximately 20 Metres to South West of Church of St Lambert - 0.5 km
• 2 Gateways and Wall Surrounding Churchyard of St Lambert Church - 0.52 km
• Telephone Box to East End of Almshouses - 0.52 km
• Burneston War Memorial - 0.53 km
• Lane House - 0.59 km
• Burneston Hall - 0.62 km
• Hargill House - 0.64 km
• Borrowdale House - 0.73 km
• Manor House - 0.76 km
• Oak Tree Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings - 1.18 km
• Elm House - 1.22 km
• Grooms Cottage - 1.25 km
• Theakston Lodge - 1.25 km
• The Hall - 1.27 km

Burneston Today

Today Burneston lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 274 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 Burneston on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Theakston - 1.0 km N
• Carthorpe - 1.0 km S
• Normanebi - 1.0 km S
• Allerthorpe Hall - 2.8 km NE
• Low Swainby - 3.2 km E
• Seuenetorp - 3.2 km E