Langtoft in the Domesday Book (1086)
Langtoft is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burton
- Binnington
- Boythorpe
- Burton [Agnes]
- Butterwick
- Carnaby
- Fornetorp
- Ganton
- Gransmoor
- Haisthorpe
- Harpham
- Kilham
- Lowthorpe
- Octon
- Rudston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Langtoft is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word topt, a homestead plot. 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 homestead plot’.
Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Langtoft.
Listed Buildings Near Langtoft
Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Langtoft. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of Saint Peter - 0.51 km
Langtoft Today
Today Langtoft lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 513 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 Langtoft on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Langtoft
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.
© Martin Dawes · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© michael ely · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Martin Dawes · 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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