Lockington in the Domesday Book (1086)
Lockington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Sneculfcros in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Sneculfcros
- Aike
- Beswick
- Beverley
- Bracken
- Dunnington
- Etton
- Gardham
- Grimston
- Holme [on the Wolds]
- Ianulfestorp
- Kilnwick
- Leconfield
- Middleton [on the Wolds]
- Molescroft
The Meaning of the Name
The name Lockington 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 Lockington.
Listed Buildings Near Lockington
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Lockington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Mary - 0.63 km
Grade II
- 82, Front Street - 0.14 km
- 54, Front Street - 0.16 km
- The Rockingham Arms - 0.17 km
- Ivy House - 0.34 km
- Lockington House - 0.58 km
- Hall Garth - 0.87 km
- Cart-shed at Rectory Farmhouse - 0.9 km
- Rectory Farmhouse and Wing Walls - 0.92 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Lockington
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Lockington:
Lockington Today
Today Lockington lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 520 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 Lockington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Kilnwick - 2.0 km N
- Beswick - 2.2 km NE
- Lund - 2.2 km NW
- Persene - 2.8 km SE
- Scorborough - 2.8 km SE
- Holme on the Wolds - 3.2 km W
Heritage Around Lockington
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.
© Stephen Horncastle · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Neil Smith · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Ian Lavender · 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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