Kellington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Osgodcross

The Meaning of the Name

The name Kellington 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 Kellington.

Listed Buildings Near Kellington

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Kellington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St Edmund - 0.82 km

Grade II

Gate Piers to St Edmund’s Churchyard - 0.77 km
Churchyard Cross, St Edmund’s Churchyard Approximately 5 Metres to South of Porch - 0.8 km
Kellington Windmill - 1.05 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Kellington

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

Roman fort 600m west of Roall Hall - 1.11 km

Kellington Today

Today Kellington lies within the administrative area of Selby, and the settlement recorded a population of 892 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 Kellington on Wikipedia .