Market Weighton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Market Weighton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Weighton in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Market Weighton at 33.7 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Market Weighton supported a recorded population of 7 villagers, working 3 ploughs between them.

The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Market Weighton was worth 32 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 6 shillings – a fall of 81%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

Resources Recorded at Market Weighton (1086)

• Meadow: 100 acres

Other Settlements in Weighton

• Cleaving [Grange]
• Easthorpe
• Goodmanham
• Harswell
• Holme [upon Spalding Moor]
• Houghton
• Kipling Cotes
• Londesborough
• Sancton
• Shipton[thorpe]
• Torp
• Torpi
• Towthorpe
• [Bishop] Burton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Market 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 Market Weighton.

Listed Buildings Near Market Weighton

Historic England records 17 listed buildings within about a mile of Market Weighton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of All Saints - 0.36 km

Grade II

• Methodist Chapel - 0.3 km
• Bay Horse Public House - 0.3 km
• Half Moon Public House - 0.31 km
• 65, High Street - 0.31 km
• 38, Southgate - 0.33 km
• Londesborough Arms Hotel - 0.34 km
• 24-28, High Street - 0.34 km
• 12-16, High Street - 0.34 km
• House Adjoining Londesborough Arms Hotel - 0.34 km
• 20 and 22, High Street - 0.34 km
• 89, York Road - 0.35 km
• Glenfield Farmhouse - 0.43 km
• Tryste House - 0.46 km
• The Manor House - 0.47 km
• Railway Cottages - 0.58 km
• Sunny Bank - 0.66 km

Market Weighton Today

Today Market Weighton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,458 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 Market Weighton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Goodmanham - 2.2 km NE
• Towthorpe - 2.2 km NW
• Houghton - 2.8 km SE
• Sancton - 2.8 km SE
• Shiptonthorpe - 2.8 km NW
• North Cliffe - 4.0 km S