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

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

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 5 listed buildings 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*

Crathorne Hall, Gate Piers and Forecourt Walls - 0.99 km

Grade II

Low Foxton Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings - 0.77 km
Park House - 1.02 km
Stable Building to North West of Crathorne Hall - 1.11 km
Middleton Grange (Farmhouse and Cottage) - 1.3 km

Foxton Today

Today Foxton lies within the administrative area of Crathorne.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Middleton upon Leven - 1.4 km NE
Crathorne - 1.4 km SW
Kirk Leavington - 2.2 km NW
Castle Leavington - 2.2 km NE
Hutton Rudby - 2.2 km SE
Rudby - 2.8 km SE

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)