Malkton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Malkton, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Ainsty
- Acaster [Malbis]
- Acaster [Selby]
- Acomb
- Appleton [Roebuck]
- Askham [Bryan]
- Askham [Richard]
- Bickerton
- Bilbrough
- Bilton
- Bishopthorpe
- Bithen
- Bolton [Percy]
- Catterton
- Colton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Malkton 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 Malkton.
Listed Buildings Near Malkton
Historic England records 46 listed buildings within about a mile of Malkton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St Mary - 0.97 km
- The Ark - 1.08 km
- The Old Vicarage - 1.09 km
Grade II
- Fircroft - 0.42 km
- Disused Railway Viaduct over River Wharfe (to north of town) - 0.7 km
- 16, York Road - 0.84 km
- 18, York Road - 0.84 km
- Sundial Approximately 10 Metres South of South Porch of St Mary’s Church - 0.99 km
- 11, Wharfe Bank Terrace - 1.02 km
- Wharfe Bridge - 1.03 km
- 9, Wharfe Bank Terrace - 1.03 km
- 5 and 7, Wharfe Bank Terrace - 1.03 km
- The Old Sunday School - 1.04 km
- 3, Wharfe Bank Terrace - 1.04 km
- 32, Kirkgate - 1.04 km
- 47, Kirkgate - 1.05 km
- 49, Kirkgate - 1.05 km
- 1, WHARFE BANK TERRACE (See details for further address information) - 1.05 km
- 24, Kirkgate - 1.06 km
- 1, 3 and 5, Bridge Street - 1.08 km
- 2, Wharfe Bank Terrace - 1.09 km
- 11, Bridge Street - 1.11 km
- Barclay’s Bank - 1.11 km
- 13, 15 and 17, Bridge Street - 1.11 km
…and 22 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Malkton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Malkton:
- Tadcaster motte and bailey castle - 0.93 km
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Malkton
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.
© Sean Diver · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Gordon Hatton · 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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