Folkton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Folkton, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Torbar
- Argam
- Brigham
- Burton [Fleming]
- Elestolf
- Elmswell
- Estolf
- Fordon
- Foston [on the Wolds]
- Garton [on the Wolds]
- Gembling
- Hunmanby
- Ledemare
- Muston
- Nafferton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Folkton 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 Folkton.
Listed Buildings Near Folkton
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Folkton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St John the Evangelist - 0.33 km
Grade II
- Old Inn Farmhouse - 0.28 km
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.3 km
- Church Farmhouse - 0.31 km
- Barn Approximately 3.5 Metres South-west of Manor Farmhouse - 0.32 km
- Barn Approximately 25 Metres to East of Grange Farmhouse - 0.33 km
- Barn Approximately 30 Metres to South-east of Grange Farmhouse - 0.33 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Folkton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Folkton:
- Round barrow on Flotmanby Wold - 1.14 km
Folkton Today
Today Folkton lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 526 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 Folkton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Flixton - 1.0 km W
- East and West Flotmanby - 2.0 km E
- Killerby Hall - 3.2 km N
- Eterstorp - 3.6 km NE
- Gristhorpe - 3.6 km NE
- Rodebestorp - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Folkton
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.
© JThomas · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John S Turner · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© JThomas · 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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