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

Other Settlements in Burton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Potter Brompton 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 Potter Brompton.

Listed Buildings Near Potter Brompton

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Potter Brompton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Manor Farmhouse - 0.49 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Potter Brompton

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

Round barrow 700yds (640m) NE of Brompton Wold Farm - 1.01 km

Potter Brompton Today

Today Potter Brompton lies within the administrative area of Ryedale.

Read more about modern Potter Brompton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Sherburn - 2.0 km W
Ganton - 2.2 km NE
Binnington - 2.8 km NE
Willerby - 4.2 km NE
East Heslerton - 5.0 km W
Staxton - 5.0 km NE

Heritage Around [Potter] Brompton

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.

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.

Potter Brompton in the Domesday Book (1086)