Hutton Roof in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Hutton Roof is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Hutton Roof 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 Roof.
Listed Buildings Near Hutton Roof
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Hutton Roof. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Glebe Cottage and Attached Outbuilding - 0.56 km
- Turners Farmhouse and Attached Barn - 0.58 km
- Yew Tree Farmhouse - 0.65 km
- Hutton Roof War Memorial - 0.7 km
- Church of St John - 0.73 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hutton Roof
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hutton Roof:
- Sealford settlement near Kirkby Lonsdale - 0.77 km
Hutton Roof Today
Today Hutton Roof lies within the administrative area of Westmorland and Furness, and the settlement recorded a population of 217 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 Roof on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Whittington - 3.6 km SE
- Dalton - 3.6 km SW
- Lupton - 3.6 km NW
- Thirnby Wood - 4.1 km E
- Kirkby Lonsdale - 4.1 km E
- Burton - 4.5 km SW
Heritage Around Hutton [Roof]
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.
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Karl and Ali · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Michael Graham · 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.
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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