Hilton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Hilton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

• Addlethorpe
• Aismunderby
• Aldfield
• Allerton [Mauleverer]
• Arkendale
• Askwith
• Azerley
• Barrowby [Grange]
• Beckwith [House]
• Besthaim
• Bestham
• Bewerley
• Bilton
• Birstwith

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hilton 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 Hilton.

Listed Buildings Near Hilton

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

Grade II*

• Church of St Michael - 0.24 km

Grade II

• Copgrove Hall - 0.35 km
• Gate Piers, Flanking Walls, Piers and Railings to Copgrove Hall Lodge - 0.4 km
• Lodge House to Copgrove Hall With Enclosed Yard on West Side - 0.41 km
• Fish Pond Bridge - 0.58 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Copgrove - 0.0 km N
• Burton Leonard - 2.0 km W
• Walkingham Hill - 2.0 km S
• Staveley - 2.2 km SE
• Brearton - 2.8 km SW
• Westwick - 3.0 km N