The settlement of High and Low Ellington is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name High and Low Ellington 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 High and Low Ellington.

Listed Buildings Near High and Low Ellington

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of High and Low Ellington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

High and Low Ellington Today

Today High and Low Ellington lies within the administrative area of Ellington High and Low.

Read more about modern Low Ellington on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Swarthorpe - 0.0 km N
High Sutton - 1.0 km S
Clifton on Ure - 1.4 km NE
High Burton - 2.2 km SE
Thirn - 2.2 km NE
Fearby - 2.2 km SW

Heritage Around [High and Low] Ellington

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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High and Low Ellington in the Domesday Book (1086)