Clactone in the Domesday Book (1086)

Clactone appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Staincross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Staincross

• Adlingfleet
• Barnby [Hall]
• Barnsley
• Barugh
• Brierley
• Carlton
• Cawthorne
• Chevet
• Clayton [West]
• Darton
• Dodworth
• Hemsworth
• Hoyland [Swaine]
• Hunshelf [Hall]

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Clactone is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Clactone.

Listed Buildings Near Clactone

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Clactone. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Oxspring Bridge Over River Don - 0.5 km
• Far Coates Cottage (East) - 0.65 km
• Far Coates Cottage (west) - 0.66 km
• Far Coates Farmhouse - 0.66 km
• Thurgoland Bridge - 0.75 km
• Thurgoland Bridge - 0.75 km
• Milepost approximately 350 metres west of Thurgoland Bridge - 0.79 km
• Willow Bridge, Approximately 300 Metres North of Willow Lane Bungalow - 0.9 km
• Pule Hill Hall and adjoining building to left - 1.26 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Oxspring - 0.0 km N
• Roughbirchworth - 1.4 km SW
• Hoyland Swaine - 2.2 km NW
• Thurgoland - 2.8 km SE
• Hunshelf Hall - 3.0 km S
• Penistone - 3.2 km W