Hutton Bonville appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Hutton Bonville at 3 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Hutton Bonville supported a recorded population of 14 villagers, 2 smallholders, 7 slaves, working 7 ploughs between them.

By 1086 Hutton Bonville was worth 4 shillings, up from 2.5 shillings before the Conquest – one of the few settlements in the area to hold its value through the upheaval.

Resources Recorded at Hutton Bonville (1086)

Mills: 2 mills (valued at 1.05 shillings)
Meadow: 12 acres

Other Settlements in Allerton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hutton Bonville 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 Hutton Bonville.

Listed Buildings Near Hutton Bonville

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Hutton Bonville. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Gate Piers Approximately 100 Metres to South of Hall Farm - 0.22 km
Church of St Lawrence - 0.32 km

Hutton Bonville Today

Today Hutton Bonville lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 74 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 Hutton Bonville on Wikipedia .