Clayton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Clayton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Morley in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Morley
- Allerton
- Armley
- Batley
- Beeston
- Bolton
- Bowling
- Bradford
- Bramley
- Calverley
- Carlton
- Chellow [Grange]
- Clifton
- Cruttonstall
- Dewsbury
The Meaning of the Name
The name Clayton 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 Clayton.
Listed Buildings Near Clayton
Historic England records 67 listed buildings within about a mile of Clayton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Leventhorpe Hall - 0.35 km
Grade II
- 18 and 20, Holts Lane - 0.36 km
- 22 and 24, Holts Lane - 0.36 km
- Outbuilding to east of Leventhorpe Hall - 0.36 km
- 8-16, Holts Lane - 0.37 km
- Barn on East Side of North Yard at Leventhorpe Hall - 0.39 km
- Barn to north of Leventhorpe Hall fronting road - 0.39 km
- Maltkiln House - 0.41 km
- 1, 3 AND 5, TOWN END ROAD BD14 (See details for further address information) - 0.45 km
- 6-14 Ramsden Place - 0.46 km
- 10, TOWN END ROAD BD14 (See details for further address information) - 0.46 km
- 7-13, TOWN END ROAD (See details for further address information) - 0.46 km
- 2 and 4 Ramsden Place - 0.46 km
- 6 and 8, Town End Road Bd14 - 0.47 km
- 12 AND 14, TOWN END ROAD BD14 (See details for further address information) - 0.48 km
- 1, 3 and 5 Ramsden Place - 0.48 km
- 2, Town End Road Bd14 - 0.49 km
- Barn to North of Town Bottom Farmhouse Fronting Road - 0.5 km
- 17 and 19 Back Fold, Town End Road - 0.5 km
- Town Bottom Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to East - 0.52 km
- Oxheys Farmhouse - 0.58 km
- Church of St John the Baptist - 0.58 km
- 1-5 Green End - 0.6 km
- 41, School Green Bd13 - 0.61 km
…and 43 more listed structures in the area.
Clayton Today
Today Clayton lies within the administrative area of Bradford, and the settlement recorded a population of 9,180 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 Clayton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Clayton
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.
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Spencer · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Spencer · 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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