Carlton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Carlton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Morley in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Morley

• Allerton
• Armley
• Batley
• Beeston
• Bolton
• Bowling
• Bradford
• Bramley
• Calverley
• Chellow [Grange]
• Clayton
• Clifton
• Cruttonstall
• Dewsbury

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 7 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 II*

• 32, 34 and 36, Commercial Street - 1.17 km

Grade II

• Carlton Hall Farmhouse - 0.34 km
• Rothwell Infants School - 0.86 km
• 2, Marsh Street - 0.97 km
• Prospect Place - 1.06 km
• Church of the Holy Trinity - 1.1 km
• Gravestone of John Blenkinsop Approximately 2 Metres North of Tower of Church of the Holy Trinity - 1.1 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Carlton

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

• Rothwell Castle - 1.02 km

Carlton Today

Today Carlton lies within the administrative area of Leeds.

Read more about modern Carlton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Lofthouse - 1.0 km S
• Rothwell - 1.4 km NE
• Thorpe on the Hill - 2.2 km SW
• Scotton Thorpe - 2.8 km NE
• Middleton - 3.2 km W
• Thorpe Stapleton - 3.2 km N