Coniston Cold in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Coniston Cold is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Craven
- Addingham
- Airton
- Anley
- Appletreewick
- Arncliffe
- Arnford
- Barnoldswick
- Bashall [Eaves]
- Battersby [Barn]
- Beamsley
- Birkby [Hall]
- Bogeuurde
- Bolton [Abbey]
- Bolton [by Bowland]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Coniston Cold 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 Coniston Cold.
Listed Buildings Near Coniston Cold
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Coniston Cold. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Parish Church of St Peter - 0.33 km
- Church Close Farmhouse - 0.48 km
- Old Post Office - 0.51 km
- Lowlands Farmhouse - 0.51 km
- Coniston Bridge and Causeway to East - 0.55 km
- Hill Top Farmhouse - 0.58 km
- Outbuilding at Bank Farm - 0.66 km
- Eshbottom Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.72 km
- Bell Busk Bridge - 0.92 km
- Coniston Hall Lodge - 0.93 km
- Red Bridge - 0.97 km
- Raven Flatt Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Coniston Cold
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Coniston Cold:
Coniston Cold Today
Today Coniston Cold lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 173 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 Coniston Cold on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Bank Newton - 2.2 km SE
- Little Stainton - 2.2 km SW
- Otterburn - 2.8 km NW
- Eshton - 3.2 km E
- Ingthorpe Grange - 3.2 km S
- Gargrave - 3.6 km SE
Heritage Around Coniston [Cold]
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.
© Roger Nunn · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© michael ely · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Partridge · 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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