Murton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Murton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Allerton

• Ainderby [Steeple]
• Appleton [Wiske]
• Arncliffe [Hall]
• Birkby
• Borrowby
• Brompton
• Cowesby
• Crosby [Grange]
• Dale [Town]
• Deighton
• Ellerbeck
• Foxton
• Girsby
• Hawnby

The Meaning of the Name

The name Murton 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 Murton.

Listed Buildings Near Murton

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

Grade II*

• Church of All Saints - 1.2 km

Grade II

• Dale Town - 0.12 km
• Daleside Cottage - 0.5 km
• The Village Hall - 1.08 km
• Wesleyan Chapel - 1.09 km
• 6, Front Street - 1.09 km
• Wesley Cottage - 1.1 km
• The Village Stores - 1.11 km
• Mill House - 1.11 km
• 1, Front Street - 1.12 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Murton

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

• Group of round barrows and cross ridge dyke at Sunny Bank - 1.2 km

Murton Today

Today Murton lies within the administrative area of Hawnby.

Read more about modern Murton Grange on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Dale Town - 0.0 km N
• Hawnby - 1.4 km NE
• Arden Hall - 2.2 km NW
• Old Byland - 3.6 km SE
• Cold Kirby - 4.0 km S
• Boltby - 4.5 km SW