East Carlton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of East Carlton, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Skyrack
- Adel
- Allerton [Bywater]
- Alwoodley
- Arthington
- Austhorpe
- Baildon
- Bardsey
- Barwick [in Elmet]
- Bichertun
- Bicherun
- Bingley
- Birkby [Hill]
- Bramhope
- Burden [Head]
The Meaning of the Name
The name East Carlton 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 Carlton.
Listed Buildings Near East Carlton
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of East Carlton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Carlton Hall - 0.47 km
- St Bartholomews Mission Church - 0.58 km
- East Chevin Farmhouse and Outbuildings - 0.83 km
Scheduled Monuments Near East Carlton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of East Carlton:
- Anti-aircraft gunsite 280m east of Carlton Hall - 0.2 km
- Roman period native settlement in Poolscar Wood, 350m south of Stubbings Farm - 1.21 km
- Roman period native settlement in Danefield Wood, 490m south west of Stubbings Farm - 1.32 km
East Carlton Today
Today East Carlton lies within the administrative area of Carlton.
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [East] Carlton
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.
© David Spencer · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Humphrey Bolton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · 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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