The settlement of Horton in Ribblesdale is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Horton in Ribblesdale at 0.2 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Horton in Ribblesdale supported a recorded population of 1 villager, 5 smallholders, 1 slave, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey records Horton in Ribblesdale’s value at 10d in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Horton in Ribblesdale (1086)

Sheep: 29
Meadow: 5 acres

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The name Horton in Ribblesdale 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 Horton in Ribblesdale.

Listed Buildings Near Horton in Ribblesdale

Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Horton in Ribblesdale. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Oswald - 0.69 km

Grade II

Horton in Ribblesdale Today

Today Horton in Ribblesdale lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 404 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 Horton in Ribblesdale on Wikipedia .