Carlton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Carlton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Barkston in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Barkston
- Barkston
- Barlow
- Birkin
- Bramham
- Brayton
- Burton [Hall]
- Camblesforth
- Clifford
- Drax
- Fairburn
- Grimston [Grange]
- Hambleton
- Hazelwood [Castle]
- Hunchilhuse
The Meaning of the Name
The name Carlton 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 Carlton.
Listed Buildings Near Carlton
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Carlton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Carlton Towers - 0.77 km
Grade II*
- Church of St Mary (Roman Catholic) - 0.23 km
Grade II
- Church of St Mary - 0.44 km
- Pair of Houses Adjoining Left of Grove Cottage - 0.59 km
- Drakes House - 0.62 km
- 9-15, High Street - 0.67 km
- The Gables - 0.69 km
- Stapleton Lodge - 0.7 km
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.74 km
- Gates, Railings and Piers Approximately 8 Metres to South of House - 0.82 km
- Gatepiers and Railings Approximately 20 Metres to South-west of House - 1.02 km
- Folly Approximately 40 Metres to South of Carlton Towers - 1.11 km
Carlton Today
Today Carlton lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,039 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 Carlton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Camblesforth - 2.0 km N
- Snaith - 2.0 km S
- Drax - 3.6 km NE
- Barlow - 4.0 km N
- Hensall - 5.1 km W
- Barmby on the Marsh - 6.4 km NE
Heritage Around Carlton
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.
© Stanley Walker · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stanley Walker · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Kneale Brooke · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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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