Parlington is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Parlington at 1 carucate of taxable land.

Parlington is recorded as waste in the 1086 survey. The waste designation appears to predate the Norman Conquest - suggesting the settlement had already been struggling before 1066, though the subsequent Harrying of the North in 1069–70 would have made recovery significantly harder.

Other Settlements in Skyrack

The Meaning of the Name

The name Parlington 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 Parlington.

Listed Buildings Near Parlington

Historic England records 36 listed buildings within about a mile of Parlington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Triumphal Arch - 0.43 km
Gascoigne Almshouses and Attached Wardens Cottage - 0.64 km

Grade II

Shelter at Approximately Se428368 - 0.21 km
The Light Arch - 0.22 km
Icehouse situated in the Wilderness to the east of the former kitchen garden, Parlington Estate - 0.33 km
The Gardens House With Attached Hot Walls, Walls of the Former Walled Garden, and Wall Enclosing Semi-circular Garden to North-west - 0.5 km
The Cottage - 0.52 km
The Dark Arch - 0.57 km
Pump approximately 10 metres to rear of Gascoigne Almshouses - 0.63 km
Lodge to Gascoigne Almshouses - 0.7 km
Front Wall to Grounds of Gascoigne Almshouses With Gatepiers at Each End - 0.71 km
Milepost Against Wall of Garden to St Wilfrids Roman Catholic Church - 0.72 km
Aberford War Memorial - 0.73 km
Stallion pens to the north-east of Home Farm, Parlington Estate - 0.74 km
Roman Catholic Church of St Wilfrid With Attached Presbytery - 0.77 km
Parlington Home Farm, including farmhouse and farm buildings - 0.78 km
Hicklam House - 0.8 km
Church House - 0.92 km
Pikes Head Lodge - 0.94 km
Manor Farm Cottage and 1 and 2 Coach House - 0.94 km
Parish Church of St Ricarius or St Riquier - 0.96 km
Market Cross Beside South Gate to Church of St Ricarius - 0.97 km
Stable Block to Rear of Swan Hotel - 1.0 km
Hicklam Mill - 1.01 km

…and 12 more listed structures in the area.

Scheduled Monuments Near Parlington

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 3 lie within roughly a mile of Parlington:

Parlington Today

Today Parlington lies within the administrative area of Leeds, and the settlement recorded a population of 93 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 Parlington on Wikipedia .