Constable Burton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Constable Burton, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan
- Achebi
- Agglethorpe
- Ainderby [Mires]
- Ainderby [Quernhow]
- Aiskew
- Aldbrough
- Allerthorpe [Hall]
- Ascam
- Ascham
- Asebi
- Aske [Hall]
- Askrigg
- Aysgarth
- Baldersby
The Meaning of the Name
The name Constable Burton 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 Constable Burton.
Listed Buildings Near Constable Burton
Historic England records 14 listed buildings within about a mile of Constable Burton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Constable Burton Hall - 0.75 km
Grade II*
Grade II
- Constable Burton Church of England School - 0.42 km
- Mill Hill and Attached Cow Byre/outbuilding - 0.44 km
- St Andrew’s Cottage - 0.44 km
- Cottage to West of St Andrew’s Cottage - 0.44 km
- Constable Burton Mill and Mill House - 0.46 km
- Constable Burton Bridge - 0.5 km
- Classical Bridge - 0.61 km
- Deer Barn - 0.66 km
- Laundry Block - 0.79 km
- Mile-post - 0.81 km
- Ice House - 0.93 km
- Cragg Farmhouse - 1.02 km
Constable Burton Today
Today Constable Burton lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 179 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 Constable Burton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Hutton Hang - 2.0 km S
- Fingall - 2.2 km SE
- Garriston - 2.2 km NW
- Hunton - 2.8 km NE
- East Hauxwell - 3.0 km N
- West Hauxwell - 3.0 km N
Heritage Around [Constable] Burton
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.
© Don Barber · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andrew Whale · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen Craven · 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.
Location
54.3097°N, -1.7464°W · Land of Count Alan hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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