The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Newton, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Newton at 6.6 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Newton supported a recorded population of 15 villagers, 9 smallholders, 1 slave, working 10 ploughs between them.

The drop in value is hard to miss. Before 1066, Newton was worth 11 shillings; by 1086 that had dropped to 6 shillings – a fall of 45%. Most Yorkshire villages that lost value on this scale were swept up in the Harrying of the North – William’s scorched-earth campaign of 1069–70.

The survey lists 3 manors at Newton under different lords. Splitting a single settlement between multiple tenants was common across the North – Saxon estates broken up and handed to William’s followers after 1066.

Resources Recorded at Newton (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 10d)
Churches: 1
Meadow: 60 acres
Woodland: 0.5 * 0.5 None

Other Settlements in Amounderness

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 7 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 II