Dale Town in the Domesday Book (1086)

Dale Town is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

• Ainderby [Steeple]
• Appleton [Wiske]
• Arncliffe [Hall]
• Birkby
• Borrowby
• Brompton
• Cowesby
• Crosby [Grange]
• Deighton
• Ellerbeck
• Foxton
• Girsby
• Hawnby
• Hornby

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Dale Town is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Dale Town.

Listed Buildings Near Dale Town

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Dale Town. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of All Saints - 1.2 km

Grade II

• Dale Town - 0.12 km
• Daleside Cottage - 0.5 km
• The Village Hall - 1.08 km
• Wesleyan Chapel - 1.09 km
• 6, Front Street - 1.09 km
• Wesley Cottage - 1.1 km
• The Village Stores - 1.11 km
• Mill House - 1.11 km
• 1, Front Street - 1.12 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Dale Town

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

• Group of round barrows and cross ridge dyke at Sunny Bank - 1.2 km

Dale Town Today

Today Dale Town lies within the administrative area of Hawnby.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Murton - 0.0 km N
• Hawnby - 1.4 km NE
• Arden Hall - 2.2 km NW
• Old Byland - 3.6 km SE
• Cold Kirby - 4.0 km S
• Boltby - 4.5 km SW