Kilton Thorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Kilton Thorpe is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kilton Thorpe 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 Kilton Thorpe.
Listed Buildings Near Kilton Thorpe
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Kilton Thorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
Scheduled Monuments Near Kilton Thorpe
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Kilton Thorpe:
- Medieval settlement and open field system at Kilton Thorpe - 0.65 km
- Kilton Castle: tower keep castle 130m east of Castle Cottages - 0.68 km
- Medieval farmstead 420m east of Buck Rush Farm - 0.97 km
Kilton Thorpe Today
Today Kilton Thorpe lies within the administrative area of Lockwood.
Read more about modern Kilton Thorpe on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Kilton - 1.4 km NE
- Little Moorsholm - 1.4 km SW
- Brotton - 2.0 km N
- Loftus - 2.2 km NE
- Liverton - 2.8 km SE
- Roskelthorpe - 3.0 km E
Heritage Around [Kilton] Thorpe
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Grice · 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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