Mint House appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Mint House at 0.3 carucates of taxable land.

The survey puts Mint House’s value at 2d, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

The survey lists 2 manors at Mint House under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Mint House 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 Mint House.

Listed Buildings Near Mint House

Historic England records 11 listed buildings within about a mile of Mint House. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*