Great Langton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Great Langton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

• Achebi
• Agglethorpe
• Ainderby [Mires]
• Ainderby [Quernhow]
• Aiskew
• Aldbrough
• Allerthorpe [Hall]
• Ascam
• Ascham
• Asebi
• Aske [Hall]
• Askrigg
• Aysgarth
• Baldersby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Great Langton 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 Great Langton.

Listed Buildings Near Great Langton

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Great Langton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Langton Farmhouse - 0.29 km
• Church of Saint Wilfrid - 0.68 km
• North Lowfield Farmhouse - 1.01 km

Great Langton Today

Today Great Langton lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 108 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 Great Langton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Kirkby Hall - 1.4 km SW
• Kiplin - 1.4 km NW
• Little Langton - 1.4 km SE
• Kirkby Fleetham - 2.2 km SW
• Great Fencote - 3.2 km S
• Little Fencote - 3.2 km S