Little Broughton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Little Broughton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Langbaurgh
- Acklam
- Airy [Holme]
- Aislaby
- Arnodestorp
- Baldebi
- Barnaby
- Barwick
- Battersby
- Bergolbi
- Berguluesbi
- Blaten [Carr]
- Borrowby
- Breck
- Brotton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Little Broughton 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 Little Broughton.
Listed Buildings Near Little Broughton
Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Broughton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Meynell Hall - 0.35 km
- Barn With Engine House and Attached Cart Lodge With Loft Over, at North West End of Drummer Hill Farmhouse - 1.14 km
Grade II
- Garden Wall and Ancilliary Buildings to Rear of Red Hall - 0.69 km
- Red Hall Red Hall Cottage - 0.72 km
- Barn with attached engine house at Gilder Tofts, to north of house - 0.94 km
- White House Farmhouse - 1.26 km
- Ingleby Bridge - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Little Broughton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Little Broughton:
- Medieval settlement of Little Broughton, associated field system and site of medieval chapel - 0.94 km
Little Broughton Today
Today Little Broughton lies within the administrative area of Great and Little Broughton.
Read more about modern Little Broughton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Camisedale - 2.0 km E
- Ingleby Greenhow - 2.0 km E
- Great Broughton - 2.0 km W
- Easby - 2.2 km NE
- Kirkby - 3.0 km W
- Battersby - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around [Little] Broughton
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.
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Mick Garratt · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Colin Grice · 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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