Deighton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Deighton, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Deighton at 5.8 carucates of taxable land.
The survey records Deighton’s value at 0d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
The survey lists 2 manors at Deighton under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.
Other Settlements in Pocklington
- Allerthorpe
- Barmby [Moor]
- Belthorpe
- Bielby
- Bolton
- Burnby
- Chetelstorp
- Elvington
- Escrick
- Everingham
- Fangfoss
- Gowthorpe
- Greenwick
- Hayton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Deighton 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 Deighton.
Listed Buildings Near Deighton
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Deighton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Holly House - 0.03 km
- Swan Farmhouse - 0.47 km
- Deighton Hall - 0.54 km
Deighton Today
Today Deighton lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 286 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 Deighton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Chetelstorp - 2.0 km S
- Escrick - 2.2 km SE
- Moreby Hall - 3.2 km W
- Naburn - 3.2 km W
- Acaster Malbis - 4.1 km W
- Bishopthorpe - 4.2 km NW
Heritage Around Deighton
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 Gilbertson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Allison · 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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