The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Flixton, entered under the hundred of Hunthow in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Flixton at 3 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Flixton supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 5 smallholders, 1 slave, working 3 ploughs between them.

The survey records Flixton’s value at 7 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

The survey lists 2 manors at Flixton under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Flixton (1086)

Cattle: 10
Pigs: 12
Sheep: 200
Meadow: 20 None

Other Settlements in Hunthow

The Meaning of the Name

The name Flixton 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 Flixton.

Listed Buildings Near Flixton

Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Flixton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*