Laverton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The name Laverton 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 Laverton.

Listed Buildings Near Laverton

Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Laverton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Laverton Grange - 0.15 km
South View - 0.83 km
Pinfold - 0.97 km
Barn at Junction With Long Swales Lane - 1.05 km
Rose Cottage and Adjoining House to Right - 1.13 km
Market Cross - 1.29 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Laverton

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

Motte and bailey castle, known as Mowbray Castle, east of Kirkby Malzeard - 1.58 km

Laverton Today

Today Laverton lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 298 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 Laverton on Wikipedia .