Hayton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hayton, entered under the hundred of Pocklington in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Pocklington
- Allerthorpe
- Barmby [Moor]
- Belthorpe
- Bielby
- Bolton
- Burnby
- Chetelstorp
- Deighton
- Elvington
- Escrick
- Everingham
- Fangfoss
- Gowthorpe
- Greenwick
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hayton 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 Hayton.
Listed Buildings Near Hayton
Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Hayton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St. Martin - 0.68 km
Grade II*
- Church of Saint Giles - 0.96 km
Grade II
- Old Village School - 0.72 km
- The Old Rectory - 1.01 km
Hayton Today
Today Hayton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 355 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 Hayton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Burnby - 1.0 km E
- Nunburnholme - 2.2 km NE
- Thorpe le Street - 2.2 km SE
- Torp - 2.2 km SE
- Torpi - 2.2 km SE
- Pocklington - 2.8 km NW
Heritage Around Hayton
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.
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Patty McAlpin · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Dr Patty McAlpin · 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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