East Witton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of East Witton, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

• Achebi
• Agglethorpe
• Ainderby [Mires]
• Ainderby [Quernhow]
• Aiskew
• Aldbrough
• Allerthorpe [Hall]
• Ascam
• Ascham
• Asebi
• Aske [Hall]
• Askrigg
• Aysgarth
• Baldersby

The Meaning of the Name

The name East Witton 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 Witton.

Listed Buildings Near East Witton

Historic England records 32 listed buildings within about a mile of East Witton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Stable Block Approximately 5 Metres to West of the Vicarage - 0.44 km
• The Vicarage - 0.44 km
• Blue Lion Stables - 0.46 km
• The Blue Lion - 0.46 km
• Church of St John the Evangelist - 0.47 km
• Old Holly Tree - 0.47 km
• 1, East Witton - 0.5 km
• Old School With Railings, Gate and Gate-piers - 0.51 km
• 10, East Witton - 0.53 km
• 12, East Witton - 0.54 km
• Reading Room - 0.54 km
• 11, East Witton - 0.54 km
• 14, East Witton - 0.55 km
• Grange Farmhouse - 0.56 km
• Cover Bridge - 0.56 km
• Pump on Green - 0.57 km
• Hutchinson’s Shop (Post Office) - 0.6 km
• 42, East Witton - 0.6 km
• Cover Bridge Inn - 0.6 km
• 22, East Witton - 0.61 km
• Low Thorpe House - 0.69 km
• 37, East Witton - 0.7 km
• Town End Farmhouse - 0.7 km
• 38, East Witton - 0.71 km

…and 8 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near East Witton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of East Witton:

• Ulshaw Bridge - 0.75 km

East Witton Today

Today East Witton lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 225 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 Witton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Ascam - 0.0 km N
• Ascham - 0.0 km N
• Danby - 1.4 km NE
• Middleham - 2.2 km NW
• Spennithorne - 2.2 km NW
• Hutton Hang - 2.8 km NE