Newton in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Newton, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Amounderness

• Aighton
• Aldcliffe
• Aldingham
• Arkholme
• Aschebi
• Ashton [Hall]
• Ashton [on Ribble]
• Austwick
• Barbon
• Bardsea
• Bare
• Barnoldswick
• Barton
• Beetham

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 296 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*

• Ring O’ Bells Public House - 0.03 km

Grade II

• 1, Queen Square - 0.02 km
• 3 and 5, Queen Square - 0.02 km
• 4 and 6, Queen Street - 0.03 km
• United Reformed Church - 0.04 km
• Becontree House - 0.04 km
• 48 and 50, King Street - 0.04 km
• 40 and 42, King Street - 0.05 km
• 1, Queen Street - 0.05 km
• 4, Queen Square - 0.06 km
• High Street Cottage - 0.07 km
• 2, Queen Square - 0.07 km
• Pair of Gate Piers and Wall at Roadside, West of United Reformed Church - 0.07 km
• 87, King Street - 0.07 km
• 34-38, King Street - 0.07 km
• Highmount House and Attached Railings - 0.08 km
• 91, King Street - 0.08 km
• 1B, Queen Street - 0.08 km
• 12, Queen Street - 0.08 km
• 89, King Street - 0.08 km
• Windermere House - 0.08 km
• 93, King Street - 0.09 km
• 14, Queen Street - 0.09 km
• 95 and 97, King Street - 0.09 km

…and 272 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Newton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Newton:

• Glass melting and annealing workshop; part of Shrigley and Hunt’s stained glass manufacturing workshops - 0.32 km
• Part of a Roman fort and its associated vicus and remains of a pre-Conquest monastery and a Benedictine priory on Castle Hill - 0.58 km
• Skerton Bridge - 0.95 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Kirk Lancaster - 0.0 km N
• Lancaster - 1.0 km E
• Aldcliffe - 1.4 km SW
• Oxcliffe Hall - 2.0 km W
• Skerton - 2.0 km N
• Scotforth - 2.2 km SE