Nafferton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Nafferton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Torbar in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Torbar
- Argam
- Brigham
- Burton [Fleming]
- Elestolf
- Elmswell
- Estolf
- Folkton
- Fordon
- Foston [on the Wolds]
- Garton [on the Wolds]
- Gembling
- Hunmanby
- Ledemare
- Muston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Nafferton 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 Nafferton.
Listed Buildings Near Nafferton
Historic England records 19 listed buildings within about a mile of Nafferton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of All Saints - 0.53 km
Grade II
- Goods Shed at Nafferton Station - 0.19 km
- Railway Station and Station Master’s House - 0.23 km
- Stable at Number 53 - 0.38 km
- 19, Westgate - 0.42 km
- The Blue Bell Public House - 0.44 km
- Nethertoft - 0.49 km
- Churchyard Wall to North of Church of All Saints - 0.55 km
- 11, Coppergate - 0.59 km
- 7, Middle Street - 0.68 km
- 20, Middle Street - 0.71 km
- 24, Middle Street - 0.75 km
- 26, Middle Street - 0.76 km
- 34, Middle Street - 0.8 km
- 31, Middle Street - 0.82 km
- 33, Middle Street - 0.84 km
- Ivy House - 1.0 km
- 2, North Street - 1.08 km
- 6, Driffield Road - 1.08 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Nafferton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Nafferton:
- Nether Hall moated site and fishpond - 0.48 km
Nafferton Today
Today Nafferton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 2,537 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 Nafferton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Lowthorpe - 2.8 km NE
- Great Driffield - 3.2 km W
- Ruston Parva - 3.2 km N
- Skerne - 3.2 km S
- Little Kelk - 4.1 km E
- Kelleythorpe - 4.5 km SW
Heritage Around Nafferton
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.
© Phil Catterall · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Peter Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© John Phillips · 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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