East Newton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of East Newton, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]
- Aldbrough
- Benningholme [Hall]
- Bewick [Hall]
- Bilton
- Burton [Constable]
- Burton [Pidsea]
- Conis[ton]
- Danthorpe
- Dowthorpe [Hall]
- Drypool
- Ellerby
- Elstronwick
- Eske
- Etherdwick
The Meaning of the Name
The name East Newton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent the new. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the new farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as East Newton.
East Newton Today
Today East Newton lies within the administrative area of Aldbrough.
Read more about modern East Newton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Ringbrough - 1.0 km E
- Aldbrough - 2.2 km NW
- Garton - 2.2 km SE
- Etherdwick - 3.0 km W
- Fitling - 3.2 km S
- Grimston - 3.6 km SE
Heritage Around [East] Newton
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.
© Ian S · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Paul Glazzard · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Church · 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.
Location
53.8181°N, -0.0782°W · Holderness [Middle Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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