East Appleton in the Domesday Book (1086)

East Appleton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

• Achebi
• Agglethorpe
• Ainderby [Mires]
• Ainderby [Quernhow]
• Aiskew
• Aldbrough
• Allerthorpe [Hall]
• Ascam
• Ascham
• Asebi
• Aske [Hall]
• Askrigg
• Aysgarth
• Baldersby

The Meaning of the Name

The name East Appleton 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 Appleton.

Listed Buildings Near East Appleton

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of East Appleton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• The Manor House - 0.31 km
• Rudd Hall - 0.92 km
• Gyll Hall - 1.16 km

Scheduled Monuments Near East Appleton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of East Appleton:

• Round barrow 570m north of Winterfield House - 0.68 km
• Round barrow 650m north west of Winterfield House - 1.19 km
• Bainesse Roman roadside settlement and Anglian cemetery - 1.57 km

East Appleton Today

Today East Appleton lies within the administrative area of Appleton East and West.

Read more about modern East Appleton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Hackforth - 1.4 km SE
• Tunstall - 2.0 km W
• Killerby Hall - 2.2 km NE
• Catterick - 2.2 km NE
• Hornby - 2.2 km SW
• Ellerton on Swale - 2.8 km NE