Hornsea Burton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Hornsea Burton, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]
- Arnestorp
- Arram
- Barmston
- Beeford
- Bewholme
- Brandesburton
- Catfoss [Hall]
- Catwick
- Chenecol
- Chenucol
- Chenuthesholm
- Cleeton
- Dringhoe
- Dunnington
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hornsea Burton 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 Hornsea Burton.
Listed Buildings Near Hornsea Burton
Historic England records 17 listed buildings within about a mile of Hornsea Burton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of Saint Nicholas - 1.27 km
Grade II*
- The White House - 0.97 km
Grade II
- Wayside Cross - 0.94 km
- Stable Block to the White House - 0.95 km
- Group of Seven Recumbent Grave Markers About 10 Metres West of the White House - 0.97 km
- Farrago and Washhouse to Right - 1.07 km
- The Nook - 1.1 km
- Folly - 1.14 km
- 65 and 66, Southgate - 1.18 km
- Railway Station - 1.2 km
- 3, Southgate - 1.2 km
- Ye Old Cottage Cafe - 1.23 km
- Burns Farm Hornsea Museum - 1.24 km
- 2, Market Place - 1.26 km
- Cross in Churchyard of St Nicholas - 1.26 km
- Pike and Heron Public House - 1.27 km
- Vicarage and Wing Walls - 1.27 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hornsea Burton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Hornsea Burton:
- Medieval settlement of Southorpe and field system, north east of Southorpe Farm - 1.02 km
- Moated site in Hall Garth Park - 1.35 km
Hornsea Burton Today
Today Hornsea Burton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 8,791 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 Hornsea on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around [Hornsea] Burton
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.
© David Wright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Wright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Roger Smith · 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.
Location
53.9004°N, -0.1658°W · Holderness [North Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →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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