Castle Leavington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Castle Leavington 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 Castle Leavington.

Listed Buildings Near Castle Leavington

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Castle Leavington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Peter - 0.83 km

Grade II

Church of St Cuthbert - 0.52 km
Outbuildings to South of Fir Tree Farmhouse - 0.84 km
Fir Tree Farmhouse - 0.86 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Castle Leavington

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

Castle Hill - 0.53 km

Castle Leavington Today

Today Castle Leavington lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 89 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 Middleton-on-Leven on Wikipedia .