Moor Monkton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Moor Monkton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Ainsty in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Ainsty
- Acaster [Malbis]
- Acaster [Selby]
- Acomb
- Appleton [Roebuck]
- Askham [Bryan]
- Askham [Richard]
- Bickerton
- Bilbrough
- Bilton
- Bishopthorpe
- Bithen
- Bolton [Percy]
- Catterton
- Colton
The Meaning of the Name
The name Moor Monkton 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 Moor Monkton.
Listed Buildings Near Moor Monkton
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Moor Monkton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of All Saints - 0.66 km
Grade II
- Rosemead Farmhouse - 0.41 km
- Church Farmhouse - 0.54 km
- Hatch End - 1.26 km
- Church House and Wall to East - 1.29 km
Moor Monkton Today
Today Moor Monkton lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 320 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 Moor Monkton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Nun Monkton - 1.0 km N
- Beningbrough - 2.2 km NE
- Wilstrop Hall - 2.8 km SW
- Newton upon Ouse - 3.2 km N
- Toresbi - 3.2 km N
- Widdington Hall - 3.2 km N
Heritage Around [Moor] Monkton
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Jonathan Billinger · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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