Norton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Norton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Osgodcross in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Osgodcross
- Arksey
- Badsworth
- Beal
- Burgh[wallis]
- Campsall
- Darrington
- Featherstone
- Ferry [Fryston]
- Hamphall [Stubbs]
- Hensall
- Hessle
- Kellington
- Knottingley
- Minsthorpe
The Meaning of the Name
The name Norton 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 northern. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the northern farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Norton.
Listed Buildings Near Norton
Historic England records 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Norton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Village Pump Immediately to East of Number 3 - 0.25 km
- Mill building at Priory Mill - 0.6 km
- Tanpit Bridge - 0.75 km
- Village Cross - 0.87 km
- The Windmill - 1.03 km
- Manor Farmhouse - 1.19 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Norton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Norton:
- Manorial complex including the site of Norton Manor House, chapel, dovecote, moat, fishponds, field system and mill, 600m south west of Wentbank House - 0.5 km
- Medieval standing cross on Tanpit Lane, 150m west of Wentbank House - 0.87 km
- Multivallate enclosure 550yds (500m) W of Norton Mills - 1.15 km
Norton Today
Today Norton lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,485 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 Norton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Campsall - 1.0 km S
- Newsham - 1.0 km S
- Walden Stubbs - 1.4 km NE
- Kirk and Little Smeaton - 2.2 km NW
- Burghwallis - 3.2 km S
- Womersley - 3.2 km N
Heritage Around Norton
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.
© Gordon Hatton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · 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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