The settlement of Marton in Cleveland is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Marton in Cleveland at 6 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Marton in Cleveland supported a recorded population of 9 villagers, working 4 ploughs between them.

The valuation dropped between 1066 and 1086. Before 1066, Marton in Cleveland was worth 2 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 1 shilling – a fall of 50%. 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 Marton in Cleveland (1086)

Churches: 1

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

The Meaning of the Name

The name Marton in Cleveland 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 in Cleveland.

Listed Buildings Near Marton in Cleveland

Historic England records 15 listed buildings within about a mile of Marton in Cleveland. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Church of St. Cuthbert - 0.42 km

Grade II

Marton in Cleveland Today

Today Marton in Cleveland lies within the administrative area of Middlesbrough, and the settlement recorded a population of 9,990 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Marton on Wikipedia .