Dinnington in the Domesday Book (1086)
Dinnington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 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 Dinnington 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 Dinnington.
Listed Buildings Near Dinnington
Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Dinnington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Dinnington Hall - 0.25 km
Grade II
- Number 1 and Attached Wall Enclosing Courtyard (Premises of Hall Court Veterinary Group) - 0.27 km
- 4, Laughton Road - 0.35 km
- Remains of cross situated opposite Falcon Court at the junction to Church Lane - 0.38 km
- Hall Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings Under Same Roof - 0.41 km
- Limelands - 0.78 km
- The Gate House - 1.05 km
- 18, the Green - 1.07 km
- Mulberry Farmhouse Including Attached Outbuilding - 1.1 km
- 16, Main Street - 1.12 km
- High House - 1.12 km
- 7, Hillside - 1.18 km
- Lodge Farmhouse - 1.3 km
Dinnington Today
Today Dinnington lies within the administrative area of Dinnington St. John’s, and the settlement recorded a population of 9,077 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Dinnington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Throapham - 1.0 km N
- North Anston - 1.0 km S
- South Anston - 2.2 km SW
- Todwick - 3.2 km W
- Laughton en le Morthen - 3.2 km N
- Kiveton - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around Dinnington
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.
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© Andrew Abbott · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Andrew Abbott · 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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