Hornington Manor in the Domesday Book (1086)

Hornington Manor is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Ainsty

• Acaster [Malbis]
• Acaster [Selby]
• Acomb
• Appleton [Roebuck]
• Askham [Bryan]
• Askham [Richard]
• Bickerton
• Bilbrough
• Bilton
• Bishopthorpe
• Bithen
• Bolton [Percy]
• Catterton
• Colton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hornington Manor 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 Hornington Manor.

Listed Buildings Near Hornington Manor

Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Hornington Manor. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of St John the Baptist - 1.07 km

Grade II

• Hornington Manor - 0.27 km
• The Old Vicarage - 1.05 km
• Medieval Grave Slab Approximately 1/3 Metre South of St John’s Church - 1.06 km
• The White House - 1.1 km
• Churchyard Cross Approximately 20 Metres to South-west of St John’s Church - 1.11 km
• Woodside Cottage - 1.13 km
• Bolton Lodge - 1.18 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hornington Manor

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Hornington Manor:

• Roman villa - 1.19 km
• Tithe barn - 1.54 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Kirkby Wharfe - 1.0 km W
• Pallathorpe - 1.0 km N
• Neuhuse - 1.0 km S
• Niuuehusum - 1.0 km S
• Ulleskelf - 1.0 km S
• Ouston Farm - 1.4 km NW