The settlement of Harton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The name Harton 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 Harton.

Listed Buildings Near Harton

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Harton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Pear Tree Farmhouse - 0.55 km
Mount Pleasant Farmhouse - 1.06 km
Griffin Gates and Lodges to Howsham Hall - 1.18 km
Milepost Approximately 300 Yards East of Field House, Flaxton - 1.23 km
Vicarage Farmhouse - 1.28 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Harton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Harton:

Bossall Hall: a quadrangular castle - 1.33 km

Harton Today

Today Harton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 99 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 Harton on Wikipedia .