Fostune in the Domesday Book (1086)

Fostune appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

• Aldbrough
• Benningholme [Hall]
• Bewick [Hall]
• Bilton
• Burton [Constable]
• Burton [Pidsea]
• Conis[ton]
• Danthorpe
• Dowthorpe [Hall]
• Drypool
• Ellerby
• Elstronwick
• Eske
• Etherdwick

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Fostune is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

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

Listed Buildings Near Fostune

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Fostune. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of Saint Peter - 0.38 km

Grade II

• The Vicarage - 0.25 km
• Ivy Cottage - 0.34 km
• Humbleton Hall and Quadrant Walls - 0.82 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Fostune

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

• Shaw Fosse moated site - 0.71 km

Fostune Today

Today Fostune lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 213 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 Humbleton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Fostun - 0.0 km N
• Humbleton - 0.0 km N
• Lelley Dyke - 1.4 km SW
• Flinton - 2.0 km N
• Elstronwick - 2.2 km SE
• Danthorpe - 2.8 km SE