Dalton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Dalton 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 Dalton.

Listed Buildings Near Dalton

Historic England records 17 listed buildings within about a mile of Dalton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Dalton Hall - 0.76 km

Grade II

Numbers 1 and 2 the Cottages - 0.07 km
Moor View - 0.08 km
The Nook and Corner Cottage and Attached Outbuildings - 0.1 km
Holmedale - 0.14 km
Dalton House - 0.32 km
Dalton Mill - 0.35 km
Farm Buildings Forming North Side of Farmyard to North of Dalton Hall - 0.8 km
Gate Piers to Dalton Hall - 0.89 km
Dalton Fields - 1.05 km
Hay Barn Approximately 60 Metres North-west of Gayles House - 1.16 km
Gayles House - 1.21 km
Front garden wall and railings at Gayles House - 1.22 km
Bay House - 1.25 km
Belmont House - 1.25 km
West View - 1.26 km
Pleasant View - 1.26 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Dalton

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

Castle Steads slight univallate hillfort and associated outwork - 1.27 km

Dalton Today

Today Dalton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 172 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 Dalton on Wikipedia .