Newton in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Newton, entered under the hundred of Dic in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Dic
- Aislaby
- Allerston
- Appleton [le Moors]
- Aschelesmersc
- Aschilesmares
- Barton [le Street]
- Baschebi
- Baschesbi
- Brompton
- Burniston
- Burton [Dale]
- Cawthorn
- Cayton
- Chigogemers
The Meaning of the Name
The name Newton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent the new. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the new farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Newton.
Listed Buildings Near Newton
Historic England records 28 listed buildings within about a mile of Newton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Ayton Castle - 0.63 km
Grade II*
- Church of Saint John the Baptist - 0.7 km
Grade II
- Burton House - 0.16 km
- Derwent House - 0.19 km
- Low Hall - 0.21 km
- Candler House - 0.22 km
- The Elms - 0.31 km
- High Hall - 0.33 km
- Ayton Bridge - 0.36 km
- Yedmandale Terrace - 0.44 km
- High Mill - 0.45 km
- Ebenezer Methodist Chapel - 0.51 km
- 8 and 10, Castlegate - 0.56 km
- 12, Castlegate - 0.58 km
- Old Weaver’s Cottage - 0.61 km
- Village Pound - 0.63 km
- Church Farmhouse - 0.65 km
- 43, Main Street - 0.68 km
- 34, Castlegate - 0.72 km
- Mount Pleasant Farmhouse - 0.79 km
- Pasture Cottage - 1.05 km
- Bay Nigg - 1.12 km
- The Kennels - 1.14 km
- The Forge and Attached Outbuildings - 1.24 km
…and 4 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Newton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Newton:
Newton Today
Today Newton lies within the administrative area of Scarborough, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,027 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 West Ayton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- West Ayton - 0.0 km N
- East Ayton - 1.0 km E
- Hutton Buscel - 1.0 km W
- Preston Hill - 1.0 km W
- Martin Garth - 2.0 km W
- Wykeham - 2.2 km SW
Heritage Around Newton
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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© bernard bradley · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Phil Catterall · 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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