East Rounton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of East Rounton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name East Rounton 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 Rounton.
Listed Buildings Near East Rounton
Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of East Rounton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Stable Cottage, Engine House, Corner Cottage and Coachmans Cottage - 0.5 km
- Lodge and Gateway With Srceen Walls to North East of Rounton Grange - 0.63 km
- Church of St Oswald - 1.21 km
Grade II
- Home Farm Home Farmhouse - 0.22 km
- The Old School - 0.38 km
- Rounton House - 0.4 km
- Village Hall - 0.41 km
- West Lodge - 0.43 km
- Church of St Lawrence - 0.44 km
- Gardener’s Cottage - 0.49 km
- The Motor House and Fowl House - 0.5 km
- East Rounton Bridge Over River Wiske - 0.54 km
- Hollins House - 0.92 km
- West Rounton Bridge - 1.22 km
- The Horse Shoe Inn - 1.24 km
East Rounton Today
Today East Rounton lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 92 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 Rounton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Irby Manor - 1.0 km W
- West Rounton - 1.0 km W
- Welbury - 3.2 km W
- Ingleby Arncliffe - 3.6 km SE
- East Harlsey - 4.0 km S
- Morton Grange - 4.0 km S
Heritage Around [East] Rounton
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.
© George Tod · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dave Dunford · 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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