Fordon is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Torbar

The Meaning of the Name

The name Fordon is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word dūn, a hill. 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 hill’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Fordon.

Listed Buildings Near Fordon

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Fordon. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St James - 0.51 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Fordon

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

Bowl barrow 580m west of High Fordon Farm - 1.55 km

Fordon Today

Today Fordon lies within the administrative area of Wold Newton.

Read more about modern Fordon on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Ledemare - 0.0 km N
Wold Newton - 2.0 km S
Foxholes - 3.6 km SW
Flixton - 4.0 km N
Folkton - 4.1 km N
Burton Fleming - 5.0 km SE

Heritage Around Fordon

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.

Fordon in the Domesday Book (1086)