The settlement of Hunton 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 Hunton 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 Hunton.

Listed Buildings Near Hunton

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Hunton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Knight - 0.21 km
Old Hall and Old Hall Cottage - 0.23 km
Rowan House - 0.24 km
The Old Dame School - 0.25 km
Railings in Front of Rowan House and the Old Dame School - 0.26 km
Sundial Cottage - 0.34 km
Manor House Farmhouse - 0.36 km
Low Hall - 0.49 km
Thornfield House - 0.49 km
Hunton House, Garden Wall and Railings - 0.5 km
Granary Attached to Left of Barn to East of Low Hall - 0.51 km
Spring House - 0.51 km
Barn Approximately 10 Metres East of Low Hall - 0.52 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hunton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hunton:

Medieval village of Hunton and field system - 0.67 km

Hunton Today

Today Hunton lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 431 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 Hunton on Wikipedia .