The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Foxton, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Foxton 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 Foxton.

Listed Buildings Near Foxton

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

Grade II

Little Bridge Farmhouse - 0.62 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Foxton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Foxton:

Foxton Today

Today Foxton lies within the administrative area of Thimbleby.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Ellerbeck - 1.0 km E
Winton - 1.0 km W
Thimbleby - 2.2 km SE
Kirby Sigston - 2.2 km SW
West Harlsey - 2.2 km NW
Mount Grace - 2.8 km NE

Heritage Around Foxton

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.

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Foxton in the Domesday Book (1086)