The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hambleton, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hambleton 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 Hambleton.

Listed Buildings Near Hambleton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Hambleton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Hambleton Hall - 0.61 km

Hambleton Today

Today Hambleton lies within the administrative area of Wyre, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,937 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 Hambleton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Stalmine - 3.0 km N
Singleton and Little Singleton - 3.0 km S
Out Rawcliffe - 3.2 km E
Thornton - 4.0 km W
Rawcliffe Hall - 4.1 km E
Burn Hall - 5.0 km NW

Heritage Around Hambleton

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.

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Hambleton in the Domesday Book (1086)