Colton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Colton, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Ainsty
- Acaster [Malbis]
- Acaster [Selby]
- Acomb
- Appleton [Roebuck]
- Askham [Bryan]
- Askham [Richard]
- Bickerton
- Bilbrough
- Bilton
- Bishopthorpe
- Bithen
- Bolton [Percy]
- Catterton
- Copmanthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Colton 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 Colton.
Listed Buildings Near Colton
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Colton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Ye Olde Sun Inne - 0.44 km
- Pigeoncote to Colton Lodge - 0.78 km
- Colton Lodge - 0.82 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Colton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Colton:
Colton Today
Today Colton lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 164 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 Colton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Steeton Hall - 1.0 km W
- Bilbrough - 2.2 km NW
- Appleton Roebuck - 2.2 km SE
- Copmanthorpe - 2.8 km NE
- Catterton - 3.2 km W
- Bolton Percy - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Colton
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.
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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