Gleaston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Gleaston, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Gleaston 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 Gleaston.
Listed Buildings Near Gleaston
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Gleaston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Gleaston Castle - 1.06 km
Grade II
- 6-7 Duke Street - 0.31 km
- Gleaston Cornmill - 0.6 km
- Village Hall - 0.89 km
- Church of St Matthew - 0.93 km
- Limekiln Approximately 10 Metres to South of Gleaston Castle - 0.93 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Gleaston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Gleaston:
Gleaston Today
Today Gleaston lies within the administrative area of Aldingham.
Read more about modern Gleaston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Dendron - 1.0 km W
- Hart Carrs - 1.0 km S
- Leece - 1.4 km SW
- Leece - 1.4 km SW
- Bolton Farm - 2.0 km N
- Stainton - 2.2 km NW
Heritage Around Gleaston
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.
© Stephen Middlemiss · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© George Hopkins · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Ruth Riddle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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