The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Moulton, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

The Meaning of the Name

The name Moulton 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 Moulton.

Listed Buildings Near Moulton

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Moulton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Moulton Hall - 0.14 km
The Manor House - 0.28 km

Grade II

Gate Piers at Moulton Hall - 0.13 km
Spring Cottage - 0.28 km
Gate piers to the Manor House - 0.29 km
Barn Approximately 20 Metres North of the Manor House - 0.3 km
Manor Bungalow - 0.31 km
Sun Cottage - 0.33 km
Reading Room - 0.34 km
Farm Buildings at Moulton Hall Farm - 0.54 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Moulton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Moulton:

Moulton Today

Today Moulton lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 166 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 Moulton on Wikipedia .