Laxton in the Domesday Book (1086)

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

Other Settlements in Howden

• Asselby
• Babthorpe
• Barlby
• Barmby [on the Marsh]
• Barnhill [Hall]
• Belby [House]
• Bowthorpe
• Brackenholme
• Burland [House]
• Cavil
• Cliffe
• Cotness [Hall]
• Eastrington
• Hagthorpe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Laxton 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 Laxton.

Listed Buildings Near Laxton

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Laxton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Remains of Old Church - 0.35 km
• Church Farm and Attached Outbuildings - 0.44 km
• Hall Farmhouse - 0.65 km
• Manor House and Gates and Railings - 0.83 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Laxton

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

• Moated site at Metham Hall Farm - 1.38 km

Laxton Today

Today Laxton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 311 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 Laxton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Cotness Hall - 1.0 km S
• Saltmarshe - 1.4 km SW
• Kilpin - 2.2 km NW
• Skelton - 3.0 km W
• Yokefleet - 3.2 km E
• Eastrington - 4.0 km N