The settlement of Elvington is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Pocklington

The Meaning of the Name

The name Elvington 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 Elvington.

Listed Buildings Near Elvington

Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Elvington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of Saint Michael and All Angels - 0.17 km

Grade II*

Sutton Bridge - 0.23 km
Elvington Hall - 0.34 km

Grade II

Manor Farmhouse - 0.22 km
The Old Rectory Hotel - 0.24 km
Saint Vincent Arms - 0.34 km
Brook House - 0.47 km
Holy Trinity Church - 0.49 km
The Cottage - 0.53 km
The Old Rectory - 0.56 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk Near the Grey Horse Public House - 0.61 km
Roxby Farmhouse - 0.66 km
Belvoir House - 0.67 km
Wheelwright Cottage - 0.71 km
Orchard Cottage - 0.76 km
The Grange - 0.81 km
Carthouse and Stables to the Grange - 0.84 km
White House - 1.28 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Elvington

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

Giant’s Hill motte - 1.23 km

Elvington Today

Today Elvington lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,270 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 Elvington on Wikipedia .