The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Flinton, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Flinton 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 Flinton.

Listed Buildings Near Flinton

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Flinton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Fairfield Farmhouse - 0.61 km
Carr Farmhouse - 0.68 km
Manor House - 0.9 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Flinton

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

Shaw Fosse moated site - 1.31 km

Flinton Today

Today Flinton lies within the administrative area of Humbleton.

Read more about modern Flinton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Tansterne - 1.0 km N
Etherdwick - 1.4 km NE
Fostun - 2.0 km S
Fostune - 2.0 km S
Humbleton - 2.0 km S
West Carlton - 2.2 km NW

Heritage Around Flinton

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.

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.

Flinton in the Domesday Book (1086)