Kirk Leavington in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Kirk Leavington is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

• Ainderby [Steeple]
• Appleton [Wiske]
• Arncliffe [Hall]
• Birkby
• Borrowby
• Brompton
• Cowesby
• Crosby [Grange]
• Dale [Town]
• Deighton
• Ellerbeck
• Foxton
• Girsby
• Hawnby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Kirk Leavington 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 Kirk Leavington.

Listed Buildings Near Kirk Leavington

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Kirk Leavington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of St Martin - 0.57 km

Grade II

• 19-21, Forest Lane - 0.59 km
• Church House Sundial House - 0.68 km
• The Hollies - 0.83 km
• Number 71 and Outbuildings to West - 1.01 km
• Five Houses Farmhouse Barn Wing - 1.26 km
• Stable Building to North West of Crathorne Hall - 1.27 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Foxton - 2.2 km SE
• Crathorne - 2.2 km SE
• Middleton upon Leven - 3.0 km E
• Castle Leavington - 3.2 km E
• Ingleby Hill - 3.2 km N
• Hilton - 3.6 km NE