Easington in the Domesday Book (1086)

Easington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Easington at 1 carucate of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Easington supported a recorded population of 4 smallholders, 3 slaves.

The survey records Easington’s value at 10d 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.

Resources Recorded at Easington (1086)

• Woodland: 3 acres

Other Settlements in Holderness [South Hundred]

• Andrebi
• Burstwick
• Camerton [Hall]
• Dimlington
• Grimston
• Halsham
• Hilston
• Hollym
• Holmpton
• Keyingham
• Kilnsea
• Monkwith
• Newton [Garth]
• Nuthill

The Meaning of the Name

The name Easington 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 Easington.

Listed Buildings Near Easington

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Easington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of All Saints - 0.41 km

Grade II*

• Tithe Barn - 0.41 km

Grade II

• Rectory Farmhouse - 0.37 km
• Cross Base Approximately 7 Metres South of Church of All Saints - 0.42 km
• Thompsons Farmhouse - 0.49 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Easington

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

• Tithe barn - 0.41 km

Easington Today

Today Easington lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 673 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 Easington on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Dimlington - 1.0 km N
• Out Newton - 2.2 km NW
• Weeton - 4.1 km W
• Rysome Garth - 4.2 km NW
• Kilnsea - 5.0 km SE
• Holmpton - 5.0 km NW