The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Casterton, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Casterton 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 Casterton.

Listed Buildings Near Casterton

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Casterton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Casterton Hall, East Wing, the Mews (Includes the Orangery) - 0.64 km
Underley Hall School - 1.27 km

Grade II

Church of Holy Trinity - 0.25 km
Barn to West of Bee Nest Farmhouse - 0.26 km
Bee Nest Farmhouse - 0.26 km
Casterton Old Hall - 0.32 km
Cow Shelter Approximately 110M South of High Lodge - 0.5 km
Limekiln at Sd 621 797 - 0.52 km
Gatehouse - 0.57 km
Limekiln at Sd 628 799 - 0.6 km
Old Manor - 0.62 km
Milestone by the Grange - 0.66 km
Kirfitt Hall and Attached Outbuilding - 0.82 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Casterton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Casterton:

Stone circle 200yds (180m) SE of Langthwaite Gill Plantation - 1.44 km
Sculptured cross near Shamrock Wood, Whelprigg - 1.52 km
Cockpit Hill, medieval motte castle - 1.59 km

Casterton Today

Today Casterton lies within the administrative area of South Lakeland, and the settlement recorded a population of 353 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 Casterton on Wikipedia .