Nawton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Nawton is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Maneshou
- Amotherby
- Ampleforth
- Appleton [le Street]
- Beadlam
- Brawby
- Broughton
- Cawton
- Coulton
- Fadmoor
- Fryton
- Gillamoor
- Gilling [East]
- Griff [Farm]
- Grimston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Nawton 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 Nawton.
Listed Buildings Near Nawton
Historic England records 16 listed buildings within about a mile of Nawton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.21 km
- Church of St Hilda - 0.22 km
- Rose and Crown Inn - 0.22 km
- Cliff Cottage - 0.33 km
- The Bield and Rose Garth, Chapel Street - 0.36 km
- Prospect House - 0.38 km
- Pond Race Cottage - 0.41 km
- Beech Cottage - 0.42 km
- Manor House Farmhouse - 0.42 km
- Orchard House, and Attached Wall, Railings, Gate and Gateposts to Front Garden - 0.42 km
- Rose House - 0.43 km
- Rose Cottage - 0.43 km
- White Cottage - 0.5 km
- Rose Cottage - 0.51 km
- Pretty Cottage - 0.56 km
- Milestone Approximately 0.5 Miles West of Village - 1.14 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Nawton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Nawton:
Nawton Today
Today Nawton lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 692 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 Nawton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Nawton
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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© David Rogers · 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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