Little Weighton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Little Weighton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Welton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Welton

• Bentley
• Brantingham
• Brantingham [Thorpe]
• Cottingham
• Ellerker
• Elloughton
• Lund
• Pillwoods [Farm]
• Risby
• Skidby
• Toschetorp
• Walkington
• Wauldby
• Welton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Little Weighton 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 Weighton.

Listed Buildings Near Little Weighton

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Little Weighton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of Saint Peter - 1.28 km

Grade II

• 2, Skidby Road - 0.42 km

Little Weighton Today

Today Little Weighton lies within the administrative area of Rowley.

Read more about modern Little Weighton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Risby - 2.2 km NE
• Riplingham - 2.2 km SW
• Skidby - 3.0 km E
• High and Low Hunsley - 3.2 km W
• Bentley - 3.6 km NE
• Walkington - 4.1 km N