Clifton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Clifton, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Clifton at 171 carucates of taxable land.
The survey records Clifton’s value at 0d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Resources Recorded at Clifton (1086)
- Churches: 3
Other Settlements in Skyrack
- Adel
- Allerton [Bywater]
- Alwoodley
- Arthington
- Austhorpe
- Baildon
- Bardsey
- Barwick [in Elmet]
- Bichertun
- Bicherun
- Bingley
- Birkby [Hill]
- Bramhope
- Burden [Head]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Clifton 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 Clifton.
Listed Buildings Near Clifton
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Clifton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Clifton Cottage and Ash Tree Cottage - 0.41 km
- Grange Farmhouse and Fairfax Cottage - 0.43 km
- Old Hall Farmhouse - 0.45 km
- Sunnyview Farmhouse - 0.48 km
- Cherry Tree Farmhouse - 0.48 km
- Well Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.49 km
- Sundial Farmhouse - 0.53 km
- Carr Side Farmhouse and Adjoining Outhouse - 0.71 km
- Dob Park House - 1.21 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Clifton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 9 lie within roughly a mile of Clifton:
- Cairn 6m in diameter south of track east of plantation on Weston Moor 300m WNW of Weston Moor Cottage - 1.22 km
- Rock with five or more cups south of track on Weston Moor 300m WNW of Weston Moor Cottage - 1.25 km
- Rock with one cup mark east of the plantation on Weston Moor 380m north west of Weston Moor Cottage - 1.33 km
- Rock with at least eight cups south of track on Weston Moor 480m WNW of Weston Moor Cottage - 1.39 km
- Cairn 7m in diameter north of track east of plantation on Weston Moor 450m WNW of Weston Moor Cottage - 1.39 km
- Rock with at least two cups and a groove east of the plantation on Weston Moor 450m north west of Weston Moor Cottage - 1.41 km
- Cup, ring and groove marked rock south of track on Weston Moor 500m WNW of Weston Moor Cottage - 1.42 km
- Rock with large oval cup east of plantation on Weston Moor 830m WSW of Dob Park House Farm - 1.44 km
- Carved rock near north east corner of the plantation on Weston Moor 550m north west of Weston Moor Cottage - 1.49 km
Clifton Today
Today Clifton lies within the administrative area of Newall with Clifton.
Read more about modern Clifton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Clifton
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.
© Joe Regan · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris Heaton · 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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