North Otterington in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of North Otterington, entered under the hundred of Allerton in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Allerton
- Ainderby [Steeple]
- Appleton [Wiske]
- Arncliffe [Hall]
- Birkby
- Borrowby
- Brompton
- Cowesby
- Crosby [Grange]
- Dale [Town]
- Deighton
- Ellerbeck
- Foxton
- Girsby
- Hawnby
The Meaning of the Name
The name North Otterington 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 North Otterington.
Listed Buildings Near North Otterington
Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of North Otterington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Church of St Michael - 0.4 km
- Newsham Grange - 0.72 km
- Sowber Gate Farmhouse - 0.94 km
- North Sowber Farmhouse - 1.14 km
- Otterington Hall - 1.23 km
North Otterington Today
Today North Otterington lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 42 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 North Otterington on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Solberge - 1.0 km W
- Thornton le Moor - 2.2 km SE
- South Otterington - 2.2 km SE
- Warlaby - 2.8 km NW
- Thornton le Beans - 3.2 km E
- Maunby - 3.6 km SW
Heritage Around [North] Otterington
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.
© David Cowling · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bob Embleton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bob Embleton · 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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