Great Mitton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Great Mitton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Craven
- Addingham
- Airton
- Anley
- Appletreewick
- Arncliffe
- Arnford
- Barnoldswick
- Bashall [Eaves]
- Battersby [Barn]
- Beamsley
- Birkby [Hall]
- Bogeuurde
- Bolton [Abbey]
- Bolton [by Bowland]
The Meaning of the Name
The name Great Mitton 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 Mitton.
Listed Buildings Near Great Mitton
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Great Mitton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of All Hallows - 0.49 km
Grade II*
- Mitton Hall - 0.1 km
Grade II
- Mitton Bridge - 0.25 km
- Great Mitton Hall - 0.45 km
- Aisled Barn, Mitton Old Hall Farm, 35 Metres West of Great Mitton Hall - 0.46 km
- Sundial 5 Metres South East of South Porch, Church of All Hallows - 0.48 km
- Cross 15 Metres South of Chancel, Church of All Hallows - 0.48 km
- Three Fishes Inn - 0.57 km
- The Old Vicarage - 0.61 km
- Winkley Hall Farmhouse and Winkley Cottage - 0.7 km
- Cross Base Approximately 170 Metres North of Mitton Green Farmhouse, on B6243 - 1.23 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Great Mitton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Great Mitton:
- The Old Lower Hodder Bridge - 1.36 km
- Bowl barrow 170m north east of Hacking Boat House - 1.38 km
- Bowl barrow 250m north of Hacking Boat House - 1.39 km
Great Mitton Today
Today Great Mitton lies within the administrative area of Ribble Valley, and the settlement recorded a population of 228 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 Mitton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Whalley - 2.8 km SE
- Bashall Eaves - 4.0 km N
- Aighton - 4.1 km W
- Pendleton - 4.1 km E
- Waddington - 5.1 km N
- West Bradford - 6.7 km NE
Heritage Around [Great] Mitton
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mr T · 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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