Portington in the Domesday Book (1086)

The settlement of Portington is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Howden in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Howden

• Asselby
• Babthorpe
• Barlby
• Barmby [on the Marsh]
• Barnhill [Hall]
• Belby [House]
• Bowthorpe
• Brackenholme
• Burland [House]
• Cavil
• Cliffe
• Cotness [Hall]
• Eastrington
• Hagthorpe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Portington 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 Portington.

Listed Buildings Near Portington

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Portington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Michael - 1.15 km

Grade II

• Portington Hall - 0.6 km
• Moss Farmhouse - 1.04 km
• The Old Vicarage - 1.06 km
• The Manor House - 1.18 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Portington

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

• Moated site at Manor Farm, Portington - 0.34 km

Portington Today

Today Portington lies within the administrative area of Eastrington.

Read more about modern Portington on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Burland House - 1.0 km W
• Cavil - 1.0 km W
• Belby House - 1.4 km SW
• Eastrington - 1.4 km SE
• Owsthorpe - 2.0 km E
• Thorpe Lidget - 2.2 km SW