Etton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Etton, entered under the hundred of Sneculfcros in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Sneculfcros
- Aike
- Beswick
- Beverley
- Bracken
- Dunnington
- Gardham
- Grimston
- Holme [on the Wolds]
- Ianulfestorp
- Kilnwick
- Leconfield
- Lockington
- Middleton [on the Wolds]
- Molescroft
The Meaning of the Name
The name Etton 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 Etton.
Listed Buildings Near Etton
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Etton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Mary - 0.48 km
Grade II
- Former Stable Block to Low Hall - 0.37 km
- Gatepiers, Screen Walls and Pavilions at Low Hall - 0.37 km
- Low Hall - 0.4 km
- St Mary’s House - 0.43 km
- Church Farmhouse - 0.55 km
- Cherry Corner - 0.63 km
- Etton (East Yorkshire) War Memorial - 0.66 km
- K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.67 km
- 57, Main Street - 0.74 km
- Etton Mill - 0.79 km
- 69, Main Street - 0.82 km
- 68, Main Street - 0.88 km
- 81, Main Street - 0.89 km
- 83, Main Street - 0.91 km
- Snilesworth Cottage - 0.95 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Etton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Etton:
- Moated site, 350m south east of Low Hall - 0.1 km
- Monastic grange, 180m south of Manor Farm - 1.17 km
Etton Today
Today Etton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 277 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 Etton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Steintorp - 0.0 km N
- Steitorp - 0.0 km N
- Torp - 0.0 km N
- Raventhorpe - 2.2 km SE
- Cherry Burton - 2.2 km SE
- South Dalton - 2.8 km NW
Heritage Around Etton
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.
© Neil Smith · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Church · 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.
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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