Marton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Marton 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 Marton.

Listed Buildings Near Marton

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Marton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Farmhouse, 100 Metres North of Entrance to Pipers Lane - 0.31 km
Church of the Most Holy Sacrement - 0.87 km
The Old School House - 0.94 km
Church of St Alban - 1.24 km

Marton Today

Today Marton lies within the administrative area of Burton Constable.

Read more about modern Marton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Withernwick - 1.4 km NE
Langthorpe Hall - 2.0 km W
Fosham - 2.2 km SE
West Newton - 2.2 km SE
Ellerby - 2.8 km SW
Arnestorp - 3.0 km N

Heritage Around Marton

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.

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Marton in the Domesday Book (1086)