Hickleton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hickleton 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 Hickleton.

Listed Buildings Near Hickleton

Historic England records 32 listed buildings within about a mile of Hickleton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Wilfrid - 0.35 km

Grade II*

Grade II

Cross With Stepped Base at Junction With Hickleton Road - 0.29 km
East Lodge and Entrance Gateway - 0.33 km
Cross at Church of St Wilfrid’s Churhcyard - 0.36 km
Lychgate to North West Corner of Churchyard of Church of St Wilfrid - 0.38 km
John O’Gaunts - 0.41 km
Section of Roadside Wall to South Side of Main Street Approximately 150 Metres to North of Hickleton Hall - 0.44 km
19 - 0.47 km
K6 Telephone Kiosk - 0.48 km
Retaining Wall and Balustrade With Urns to East Front of Hickleton Hall - 0.48 km
8 and 9 - 0.49 km
Castle Hill Farmhouse - 0.5 km
Home Farm Court - 0.51 km
Pedestal With Urn at Centre of Maze Garden Approximately 12 Metres to South of Hickleton Hall - 0.52 km
Upper Terrace Retaining Wall With Attached Garden House to West Front of Hickleton Hall - 0.52 km
Dovecote Immediately to North of Old Orchard House - 0.53 km
Old School - 0.54 km
Ha-ha retaining wall to south of Hickleton Hall including urns, gatepiers and gates - 0.56 km
Lining of Oval Pond With Central Statue Approximately 100 Metres to West of Hickleton Hall - 0.58 km
30-33 - 0.64 km
34 and 35 - 0.71 km

…and 8 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Hickleton

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

Medieval standing cross and early 20th century memorial cross - 0.28 km

Hickleton Today

Today Hickleton lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 220 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 Hickleton on Wikipedia .