Millom Castle is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Millom Castle is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Millom Castle.

Listed Buildings Near Millom Castle

Historic England records 7 listed buildings within about a mile of Millom Castle. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Millom Castle - 0.48 km
Church of Holy Trinity - 0.51 km

Grade II

Gatepiers to North East of Millom Castle - 0.42 km
Gatepiers to East of Millom Castle - 0.45 km
Postlewaithe Memorial Immediately to South of Chancel of Church of Holy Trinity - 0.51 km
Cross Base Approximately 6 Metres to North of Porch of Church of Holy Trinity - 0.52 km
Sundial Approximately 6 Metres to South of Church of Holy Trinity - 0.52 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Millom Castle

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Millom Castle:

Millom Castle (ruined portions) - 0.48 km

Millom Castle Today

Today Millom Castle lies within the administrative area of Copeland, and the settlement recorded a population of 7,240 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 Millom on Wikipedia .