The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of East and West Lutton, entered under the hundred of Toreshou in Yorkshire. The survey assessed East and West Lutton at 5.6 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, East and West Lutton supported a recorded population of 8 villagers, 10 smallholders, 1 slave, working 6 ploughs between them.

The survey records East and West Lutton’s value at 4 shillings 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 East and West Lutton (1086)

Cattle: 22
Pigs: 25
Sheep: 115
Horses (cobs): 1
Meadow: 46 acres
Woodland: 2 * 0.5 furlongs

Other Settlements in Toreshou

The Meaning of the Name

The name East and West Lutton 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 East and West Lutton.

Listed Buildings Near East and West Lutton

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of East and West Lutton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St Mary - 0.6 km

Grade II

Footbridge, Lychgate and Attached Churchyard Wall to Church of St Mary - 0.58 km
Church Farmhouse - 0.62 km
Manor Farmhouse - 0.68 km
Holly House - 0.7 km
Clara’s Cottage, formerly listed as: White cottage attached to Hawthorn cottage - 0.72 km

East and West Lutton Today

Today East and West Lutton lies within the administrative area of Luttons, and the settlement recorded a population of 411 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 West Lutton on Wikipedia .