Marton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Marton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hunthow in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Hunthow

• Auburn
• Bempton
• Bessingby
• Boynton
• Boynton [Hall]
• Bridlington
• Buckton
• Easton
• Flamborough
• Flixton
• Foxholes
• Fraisthorpe
• Grindale
• Hilderthorpe

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 24 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 I

• Sewerby House - 0.49 km

Grade II*

• Conservatory to East of Sewerby House - 0.48 km
• The Old Laundry, Sewerby House - 0.49 km
• Courtyard Archway to North West of Sewerby House - 0.51 km
• Terrace Balustrade and Attached Garden Wall and Archway to Sewerby House - 0.52 km
• Stable Block to North West of Sewerby House - 0.52 km
• Marton Hall School - 0.53 km
• Church of St John the Evangelist - 0.64 km
• Gate House, Comprising Archway and Lodges (Numbers 2 and 4) to Sewerby House Attached Forecourt Walls and Gatepiers to West - 0.72 km

Grade II

• Pigeon Cote - 0.35 km
• Tower in Grounds of Nettlehole - 0.45 km
• Marton Grange - 0.48 km
• Marton Manor - 0.59 km
• Farm Buildings to North West of Marton Manor - 0.6 km
• Sewerby School - 0.61 km
• Lodge Number 16 of Sewerby House - 0.69 km
• The Ship Public House - 0.78 km
• 32, Main Street - 0.79 km
• 25-39, Main Street - 0.82 km
• 17 Main Street - 0.92 km
• 10, Main Street - 0.93 km
• 4, Main Street - 0.95 km
• Sewerby Grange - 1.09 km
• Flamborough Railway Station and Wall - 1.23 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Marton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Marton:

• Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Home Farm, Sewerby - 0.35 km
• Section of Danes’ Dyke between the Cliff Plantation and the B1255 - 0.92 km
• Section of the Danes’ Dyke between the B1255 and B1229 roads - 1.36 km

Marton Today

Today Marton lies within the administrative area of Bridlington.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Sewerby - 1.4 km SW
• Flamborough - 2.2 km NE
• Bempton - 3.2 km N
• Bridlington - 3.6 km SW
• Buckton - 3.6 km NW
• Hilderthorpe - 5.0 km SW