Little Eccleston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Little Eccleston is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Amounderness
- Aighton
- Aldcliffe
- Aldingham
- Arkholme
- Aschebi
- Ashton [Hall]
- Ashton [on Ribble]
- Austwick
- Barbon
- Bardsea
- Bare
- Barnoldswick
- Barton
- Beetham
The Meaning of the Name
The name Little Eccleston 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 Eccleston.
Listed Buildings Near Little Eccleston
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Eccleston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- The Old Barn - 0.37 km
- Little Eccleston Hall - 0.41 km
- Little Eccleston Hall Farmyard Building - 0.47 km
- Church of St Anne - 0.52 km
- Wall Farmhouse - 0.89 km
- Barn on East Side of Lane Circa 70 Metres North of Wall Farmhouse - 0.91 km
- Barn on Corner of Copp Lane to Rear of Chapel Farmhouse - 1.09 km
- Forest Farmhouse - 1.14 km
- Pinfold - 1.15 km
- Dovecote - 1.15 km
- Willow Cottage Restaurant - 1.28 km
- Western House on Southern Side of the Square - 1.29 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Little Eccleston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Little Eccleston:
Little Eccleston Today
Today Little Eccleston lies within the administrative area of Little Eccleston-with-Larbreck.
Read more about modern Little Eccleston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Elswick - 1.4 km SE
- Great Eccleston - 1.4 km NE
- Rawcliffe Hall - 2.0 km N
- Out Rawcliffe - 2.2 km NW
- Upper Rawcliffe - 2.8 km NE
- Singleton and Little Singleton - 4.0 km W
Heritage Around [Little] Eccleston
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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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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