Nun Monkton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Nun Monkton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The name Nun Monkton 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 Nun Monkton.
Listed Buildings Near Nun Monkton
Historic England records 28 listed buildings within about a mile of Nun Monkton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Mary - 0.71 km
Grade II*
- Statue of Shepherd With Pipe and Pedestal Approximately 20 Metres South West of the Priory - 0.7 km
- The Priory - 0.71 km
- Statue of the Bucaneer and Pedestal Approximately 20 Metres South of the Priory - 0.71 km
- Statue of A Sailors Moll and Pedestal Approximately 20 Metres South of the Priory - 0.72 km
- Statue of Girl With Birds Nest and Pedestal Approximately 30 Metres East of the Priory - 0.73 km
- Statue of the Haymaker and Pedestal Approximately 35 Metres North of the Priory - 0.74 km
Grade II
- Hatch End - 0.28 km
- Church House and Wall to East - 0.29 km
- Cross Stump - 0.34 km
- West Side Farmhouse - 0.35 km
- The Alice Hawthorne - 0.4 km
- Mallards - 0.43 km
- Plum Tree Cottage - 0.45 km
- White Swan House and Railings to South - 0.5 km
- Lane End House - 0.57 km
- Rosemead Farmhouse - 0.62 km
- Church Farmhouse - 0.65 km
- Avenue Cottage - 0.66 km
- Gate Piers to West and Garden Wall to South West and North of the Priory - 0.67 km
- Priory Cottage - 0.68 km
- Water Tower - 0.68 km
- Sundial Approximately 12 Metres South of the Priory - 0.72 km
- Carving Approximately 30 Metres North East of the Priory - 0.74 km
…and 4 more listed structures in the area.
Nun Monkton Today
Today Nun Monkton lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 271 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 Nun Monkton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Moor Monkton - 1.0 km S
- Beningbrough - 2.0 km E
- Newton upon Ouse - 2.2 km NE
- Toresbi - 2.2 km NE
- Widdington Hall - 2.2 km NW
- Linton upon Ouse - 3.2 km N
Heritage Around [Nun] Monkton
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
© Jonathan Billinger · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DS Pugh · 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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