Overton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Overton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, 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 Overton 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 upper. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the upper farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Overton.
Listed Buildings Near Overton
Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Overton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Church of St. Helen - 0.47 km
Grade II
- Overton Hall - 0.45 km
- Remains of Cross Approx. 10 Metres South of Church of St. Helen - 0.46 km
- Dennison Farmhouse - 0.48 km
- April Cottage - 0.5 km
- 13, Main Street - 0.51 km
- Glebe Farmhouse - 0.55 km
- North Farmhouse - 0.58 km
- Manor House Farmhouse - 0.59 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Overton
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Overton:
- Glasson Dock - 1.55 km
Overton Today
Today Overton lies within the administrative area of Lancaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,016 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 Overton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Middleton - 1.4 km NW
- Ashton Hall - 3.0 km E
- Heaton - 3.2 km N
- Lower and Upper Thurnham - 4.2 km SE
- Aldcliffe - 4.2 km NE
- Higher and Lower Heysham - 4.5 km NW
Heritage Around Overton
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.
© Tom Richardson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Alexander P Kapp · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Robin Madge · 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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