Eshton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Eshton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Craven
- Addingham
- Airton
- Anley
- Appletreewick
- Arncliffe
- Arnford
- Barnoldswick
- Bashall [Eaves]
- Battersby [Barn]
- Beamsley
- Birkby [Hall]
- Bogeuurde
- Bolton [Abbey]
- Bolton [by Bowland]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Eshton 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 Eshton.
Listed Buildings Near Eshton
Historic England records 18 listed buildings within about a mile of Eshton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Brockabank - 0.44 km
- Eshton Hall - 0.51 km
- Friars Head - 1.13 km
Grade II
- Eshton Grange - 0.28 km
- Eshton Mews the Coach House - 0.31 km
- Home Farmhouse and the Lodge - 0.34 km
- Barn on Road 200 Metres West of Eshton Hall - 0.42 km
- Terrace Wall of Eshton Hall - 0.52 km
- Gatepiers and Gates at Eshton Hall - 0.6 km
- Railings to Either Side of Eshton Road to West of Eshton Hall - 0.66 km
- St Helen’s Farmhouse - 0.69 km
- St Helen’s Well - 0.72 km
- New Laithe - 0.73 km
- Flasby Hall: Tower - 0.94 km
- Flasby Top Cottage - 1.02 km
- Flasby Hall - 1.03 km
- Grange Farmhouse - 1.12 km
- Flasby Hall Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Eshton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Eshton:
- Cup marked rock in wall east of Scarnber Wood, 500m north east of Bark Laithe, Winterburn - 0.94 km
- Pillow mounds east of Friars Head, known as Giants’ Graves - 1.08 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Flasby - 1.0 km E
- Leuetat - 1.0 km E
- Winterburn - 2.0 km N
- Holme House - 2.2 km SE
- Gargrave - 3.0 km S
- Coniston Cold - 3.2 km W
Heritage Around Eshton
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.
© Stephen Craven · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Sparshatt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© michael ely · 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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