Hangton Hill is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Hangton Hill at 4.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Hangton Hill supported a recorded population of 25 villagers, 6 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 10 ploughs between them.

The survey records Hangton Hill’s value at 14.7 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Hangton Hill (1086)

Cattle: 6
Sheep: 30
Meadow: 6 acres
Woodland: 1 * 1 leagues

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hangton Hill 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 Hangton Hill.

Listed Buildings Near Hangton Hill

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Hangton Hill. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*