East Heslerton in the Domesday Book (1086)

East Heslerton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Toreshou in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Toreshou

• Cottam
• Cowlam
• Croom [House]
• Helperthorpe
• Kirby [Grindalythe]
• Knapton
• Newton
• Sherburn
• Sledmere
• Thirkleby [Manor]
• Turodebi
• Ulchiltorp
• Weaverthorpe
• [East and West] Lutton

The Meaning of the Name

The name East Heslerton 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 Heslerton.

Listed Buildings Near East Heslerton

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

Grade I

• Church of St Andrew - 0.18 km

Grade II

• Lamp and Lamp Standard Approximately 4 Metres West of the Narthex of the Church of St Andrew - 0.17 km
• Churchyard Cross Approximately 4 Metres North of the Narthex of the Church of St Andrew - 0.18 km
• Lychgate and Attached Churchyard Wall of Church of St Andrew - 0.18 km
• Roseville - 0.31 km
• Milestone - 0.83 km

Scheduled Monuments Near East Heslerton

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

• Heslerton Brow barrow group: three bowl barrows 300m north-east of Wold Barn - 1.5 km
• Heslerton Brow barrow group: a bowl barrow 230m north-east of Wold Barn - 1.54 km
• East Heslerton Brow barrow group: a bowl barrow 750m east of Manor Wold Farm - 1.56 km

East Heslerton Today

Today East Heslerton lies within the administrative area of Heslerton.

Read more about modern East Heslerton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• West Heslerton - 1.4 km SW
• Sherburn - 3.0 km E
• Knapton - 4.1 km W
• Potter Brompton - 5.0 km E
• Wintringham - 5.0 km SW
• Newton - 5.6 km SW