East Ayton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of East Ayton, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Appleton [le Moors]
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Barton [le Street]
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
The Meaning of the Name
The name East Ayton 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 Ayton.
Listed Buildings Near East Ayton
Historic England records 19 listed buildings within about a mile of East Ayton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Ayton Castle - 1.04 km
Grade II*
- Church of Saint John the Baptist - 0.67 km
Grade II
- Village Pound - 0.62 km
- Church Farmhouse - 0.66 km
- 43, Main Street - 0.67 km
- Old Weaver’s Cottage - 0.68 km
- 8 and 10, Castlegate - 0.81 km
- 12, Castlegate - 0.81 km
- Derwent House - 0.82 km
- Ebenezer Methodist Chapel - 0.82 km
- 34, Castlegate - 0.83 km
- Ayton Bridge - 0.87 km
- Candler House - 0.9 km
- Low Hall - 0.9 km
- Burton House - 0.91 km
- High Mill - 0.94 km
- High Hall - 0.96 km
- The Elms - 1.07 km
- Yedmandale Terrace - 1.08 km
Scheduled Monuments Near East Ayton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of East Ayton:
East Ayton Today
Today East Ayton lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,781 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 East Ayton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Newton - 1.0 km W
- West Ayton - 1.0 km W
- Irton - 2.0 km E
- Thorpefield - 2.0 km E
- Hutton Buscel - 2.0 km W
- Preston Hill - 2.0 km W
Heritage Around [East] Ayton
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.
© Phil Catterall · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Rogers · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Maigheach-gheal · 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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