Caton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Caton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Caton 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 Caton.
Listed Buildings Near Caton
Historic England records 28 listed buildings within about a mile of Caton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Paul - 0.64 km
Grade II
- Artle Beck Bridge - 0.16 km
- Milestone - 0.39 km
- Barn South of Brookhouse Old Hall - 0.51 km
- Brookhouse Old Hall - 0.52 km
- Greenfield Cottage (Facing South East) - 0.56 km
- Borwicks and Barn Adjoining to South - 0.56 km
- Greenfield Cottage (Facing North East to Lane) - 0.56 km
- Rose Cottage - 0.56 km
- Farrar House and Barn Adjoining to West - 0.56 km
- Greenfield House - 0.57 km
- Old Hall Farmhouse - 0.59 km
- Willow Mill - 0.59 km
- 1 and 2, New Street - 0.59 km
- Ash House - 0.59 km
- Church Hill - 0.59 km
- 5, Sunny Bank - 0.61 km
- Moorside Cottage - 0.65 km
- Fish Stones - 0.65 km
- Old Post Cottage - 0.69 km
- Caton Hall - 0.69 km
- Gresgarth Lodge - 0.91 km
- Croftlands - 0.94 km
- Former Spinning Mill, Low Mill - 0.96 km
…and 4 more listed structures in the area.
Caton Today
Today Caton lies within the administrative area of Caton-with-Littledale.
Read more about modern Caton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Caton
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Long · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · 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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