Overton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

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 18 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 Saint Everilda - 0.94 km

Grade II

Overton Cross - 0.24 km
Moat House - 0.41 km
20, Main Street - 0.56 km
Gazebo 50 Metres to North of the Fox Inn - 0.58 km
Hall Garth - 0.59 km
Priory House and Gates and Railings - 0.65 km
Bankside - 0.66 km
School House - 0.66 km
Poppleton House - 0.67 km
1, Main Street - 0.68 km
Kilburn House - 0.69 km
Greystone and Attached Barn and Railings and Gates - 0.82 km
Barn to South of Greystone - 0.86 km
Garage at Manor Farm - 0.89 km
Manor Farmhouse and Gate and Railings - 0.9 km
Barn at Manor Farm - 0.94 km
Toll Bar Cottage - 1.3 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Overton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Overton:

Nether Poppleton medieval moated site, fishponds and earthworks around and associated with St Everilda’s Church - 0.91 km

Overton Today

Today Overton lies within the administrative area of Hambleton, and the settlement recorded a population of 54 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 .