Burton Fleming in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Burton Fleming is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Torbar
- Argam
- Brigham
- Elestolf
- Elmswell
- Estolf
- Folkton
- Fordon
- Foston [on the Wolds]
- Garton [on the Wolds]
- Gembling
- Hunmanby
- Ledemare
- Muston
- Nafferton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Burton Fleming 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 Fleming.
Listed Buildings Near Burton Fleming
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Burton Fleming. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Cuthbert - 0.28 km
Grade II
- Mere Farmhouse - 0.15 km
- North Burton Hall - 0.23 km
- Village Farmhouse - 0.31 km
- Burton Fleming War Memorial - 0.31 km
- The Manor House - 0.32 km
- House About 200 Metres South of Church of St Cuthbert - 0.33 km
Burton Fleming Today
Today Burton Fleming lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 460 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 Fleming on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Burton [Fleming]
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.
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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.
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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