The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Clifton, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

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.

Scheduled Monuments Near Clifton

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

Conisbrough Parks Romano-British Villa - 0.23 km

Clifton Today

Today Clifton lies within the administrative area of Conisbrough Parks.

Read more about modern Clifton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Conisbrough - 2.0 km N
Old Edlington - 2.2 km NE
Braithwell - 2.2 km SE
Ravenfield - 3.2 km W
Hooton Roberts - 3.2 km W
Cadeby - 4.0 km N

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.

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Clifton in the Domesday Book (1086)