The settlement of Morton Grange is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Langbaurgh in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Langbaurgh

The Meaning of the Name

The name Morton Grange 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 Morton Grange.

Listed Buildings Near Morton Grange

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Morton Grange. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Morton Grange Today

Today Morton Grange lies within the administrative area of Guisborough.

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Nunthorpe - 1.4 km SW
Newton - 1.4 km SE
Pinchinthorpe Hall - 2.0 km E
Upsall Hall - 2.2 km NE
Barnaby - 2.8 km NE
Ormesby - 2.8 km NW

Heritage Around Morton [Grange]

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.

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Morton Grange in the Domesday Book (1086)