Burton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Burton, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Burton at 12.1 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Burton supported a recorded population of 14 villagers, 15 smallholders, 11 freemanmen, working 21 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Burton was worth 36 shillings, up from 30 shillings before the Conquest – which sets it apart from the many nearby villages left waste or devalued.

Resources Recorded at Burton (1086)

• Mills: 2 mills (valued at 1.66 shillings)
• Meadow: 8 acres

Other Settlements in Amounderness

• Aighton
• Aldcliffe
• Aldingham
• Arkholme
• Aschebi
• Ashton [Hall]
• Ashton [on Ribble]
• Austwick
• Barbon
• Bardsea
• Bare
• Barnoldswick
• Barton
• Beetham

The Meaning of the Name

The name Burton 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 Burton.

Listed Buildings Near Burton

Historic England records 27 listed buildings within about a mile of Burton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Burton House, North Wing; Burton House, South Wing; Burton House and Rear Garden Wall Attached to South Wing and Forming Rear Wall of the White Cottage and Outlook - 0.62 km

Grade II

• No 1, the Post Office and Nos 2-4 the Square (East Side) - 0.56 km
• Royal Hotel - 0.57 km
• The Square House - 0.57 km
• Market Cross - 0.57 km
• The Globe - 0.58 km
• Lamp Post at Centre of Square - 0.58 km
• Devenant House - 0.59 km
• Nos 1-4 and no 5, the Bakery, Chester Terrace - 0.59 km
• Hill House - 0.59 km
• Old Bank Cottage and Aysgarth Cottage - 0.59 km
• Hutton House - 0.6 km
• 1-4, the Square (West Side) - 0.6 km
• The Coach House - 0.61 km
• Kings Arms Hotel - 0.61 km
• Laurel Cottage - 0.62 km
• Manor House - 0.63 km
• Fern Bank and Cottage Attached to Right - 0.64 km
• Coach House, Stables and Hayloft Circa 4 Metres South of Burton Hall - 0.65 km
• Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Lamps at Front Entrance to Burton House - 0.66 km
• Privies Circa 10 Metres South of Burton Hall - 0.66 km
• Burton Hall - 0.67 km
• Mansion House - 0.68 km
• Hordley House - 0.69 km

…and 3 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Burton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Burton:

• Romano-British farmstead immediately south of Russell Farm - 0.76 km
• Dalton medieval village and parts of its associated medieval open field system centred 620m ENE of Dalton Hall - 0.93 km

Burton Today

Today Burton lies within the administrative area of Westmorland and Furness, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,472 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 Burton-in-Kendal on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Dalton - 1.0 km E
• Holme - 2.2 km NW
• Priest Hutton - 3.0 km S
• Yealand Conyers and Redmayne - 3.2 km W
• Borwick - 3.2 km S
• Hutton Roof - 4.5 km NE