Long Riston is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Long Riston at 5.0 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Long Riston supported a recorded population of 11 villagers, 5 smallholders, 7 slaves, working 7 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Long Riston’s value at 4.5 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

The survey lists 2 manors at Long Riston under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Long Riston (1086)

Meadow: 10 None

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Long Riston 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 Long Riston.

Listed Buildings Near Long Riston

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Long Riston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*