Kiveton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Kiveton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The name Kiveton 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 Kiveton.
Listed Buildings Near Kiveton
Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Kiveton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Peter and St Paul - 0.67 km
Grade II
- Main Gate Piers to Kiveton Hall - 0.14 km
- End Sections of 2 Outbuildings at Kiveton Hall Farm Each Having Twin Oeil-de-boeuf and Facing Kiveton Lane - 0.16 km
- Section of wall flanking south side of drive to Kiveton Hall and forming north side of walled garden to south west of house - 0.21 km
- Kiveton Hall - 0.28 km
- Ha Ha Immediately to East of Kiveton Hall - 0.3 km
- Railway Bridge at Kiveton Bridge Station - 0.91 km
- Kiveton Park Colliery Offices - 0.92 km
- 44 and 46, Kiveton Lane - 1.13 km
- Hand-pump Immediately to North of Number 44 - 1.14 km
- Former Cottages to Rear of Number 32 - 1.27 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Kiveton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Kiveton:
- Manor House moated site - 0.81 km
Kiveton Today
Today Kiveton lies within the administrative area of Wales.
Read more about modern Kiveton Park on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Todwick - 1.0 km N
- South Anston - 2.0 km E
- Wales - 2.0 km W
- Harthill - 3.0 km S
- North Anston - 3.2 km E
- Dinnington - 3.6 km NE
Heritage Around Kiveton
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.
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Richard Croft · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alan Heardman · 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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