Grinton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Grinton 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 Grinton.

Listed Buildings Near Grinton

Historic England records 60 listed buildings within about a mile of Grinton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Andrew - 0.06 km

Grade II*

Blackburn Hall - 0.04 km
Draycott Hall - 0.47 km

Grade II

Grinton Bridge - 0.06 km
The Post Office - 0.07 km
Clarkson Memorial Approximately 10 Metres From South-east Corner of Church of St Andrew - 0.08 km
Gates and Gatepiers to East of Church of St Andrew - 0.09 km
Manor Farmhouse - 0.12 km
Neddy House and Cottage - 0.14 km
East View and Virginia House - 0.21 km
Manor House - 0.34 km
The Grange With Outbuilding Railings and Gatepiers - 0.4 km
Gate Piers Approximately 35 Metres South-east of Draycott Hall - 0.43 km
Ad House - 0.44 km
Ad Cottage - 0.45 km
Gate Piers Approximately 10 Metres West of Draycott Hall - 0.48 km
Swale Hall - 0.48 km
Gate Piers Approximately 20 Metres West of Draycott Hall - 0.49 km
Wing Immediately to North of Draycott Hall - 0.49 km
Stableblock Approximately 15 Metres North-west of Draycott Hall - 0.5 km
Spring Field - 0.5 km
Upnadown - 0.53 km
Garden Wall to East, North and West of Draycott Hall Grounds - 0.56 km
Garden House Approximately 100 Metres North-east of Draycott Hall - 0.57 km

…and 36 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Grinton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 7 lie within roughly a mile of Grinton:

Dyke 270yds (250m) E of Dyke House - 0.52 km
Bowl barrow at Swale Hall - 0.6 km
Dyke 220yds (200m) W of Dyke House - 0.94 km
Ring cairn at Cogden Gill, south east of Grinton Lodge - 1.11 km
Ring cairn at Cogden Gill, 200m south of Grinton Lodge - 1.11 km
Linear earthwork at Harker Mires - 1.28 km
Embanked small stone circle at Harker Mires on Harkerside Moor - 1.38 km

Grinton Today

Today Grinton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 157 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 Grinton on Wikipedia .