Dalton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Dalton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
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 2 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
- Aldwarke Bridge - 0.56 km
- East Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.75 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Dalton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Dalton:
- Cross in the churchyard of St Leonard’s Church - 1.51 km
- Cross located on the former village green - 1.59 km
Dalton Today
Today Dalton lies within the administrative area of Rotherham, and the settlement recorded a population of 10,038 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 .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Thrybergh - 1.4 km NE
- Rotherham - 2.8 km SW
- Rawmarsh - 2.8 km NW
- Ravenfield - 3.2 km E
- Wickersley - 3.6 km SE
- Greasbrough - 4.1 km W
Heritage Around Dalton
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.
© Alan Murray-Rust · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Murray-Rust · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Christopher Thomas · 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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