The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Garriston, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Garriston at 3.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Garriston supported a recorded population of 6 villagers, 2 smallholders, 2 slaves, working 4 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Garriston’s value at 3 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Garriston 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 Garriston.

Listed Buildings Near Garriston

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Garriston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of Saint Oswald - 1.13 km

Grade II*

Hauxwell Hall - 1.03 km

Grade II

Scheduled Monuments Near Garriston

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

West Hauxwell churchyard cross - 1.12 km

Garriston Today

Today Garriston lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 23 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 Garriston on Wikipedia .