The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Linton, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burghshire

The Meaning of the Name

The name Linton 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 Linton.

Listed Buildings Near Linton

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

Grade II*

Church of St Oswald - 0.7 km

Grade II

Northgate Farmhouse - 0.71 km
Linton Bridge - 0.74 km
Manor House Barn - 0.82 km
Square Outbuilding North of Rear of Bungalow Immediately South of Junction With the Ridge - 0.99 km
Bridge Over Collingham Beck Approximately 40 Metres West of the Old Star Inn - 1.07 km

Linton Today

Today Linton lies within the administrative area of Collingham.

Read more about modern Linton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Compton - 2.0 km S
Wetherby - 2.2 km NE
East Keswick - 3.6 km SW
Sicklinghall - 3.6 km NW
Clifford - 3.6 km SE
East Rigton - 3.6 km SW

Heritage Around Linton

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.

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Linton in the Domesday Book (1086)