The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Compton, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Skyrack

The Meaning of the Name

The name Compton 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 Compton.

Listed Buildings Near Compton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Compton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Compton Grove Farmhouse - 0.42 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Compton

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

Dalton Parlours Roman villa and Iron Age settlement - 0.63 km

Compton Today

Today Compton lies within the administrative area of Collingham.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Linton - 2.0 km N
East Rigton - 2.2 km SW
Wothersome - 2.2 km SE
Clifford - 3.0 km E
East Keswick - 3.0 km W
Bardsey - 3.2 km W

Heritage Around Compton

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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Compton in the Domesday Book (1086)