Potterton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Potterton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Skyrack in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Skyrack

• Adel
• Allerton [Bywater]
• Alwoodley
• Arthington
• Austhorpe
• Baildon
• Bardsey
• Barwick [in Elmet]
• Bichertun
• Bicherun
• Bingley
• Birkby [Hill]
• Bramhope
• Burden [Head]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Potterton 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 Potterton.

Listed Buildings Near Potterton

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Potterton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• West Wing, Potterton Hall - 0.52 km
• Church of All Saints - 1.18 km

Grade II

• Well Head and Two Troughs Approximately 20 Metres South of Pond - 0.35 km
• Potterton Bridge - 0.44 km
• Gate Piers and Quadrant Walls With Railings to Potterton Hall - 0.49 km
• South Wing and Attached East Wing, Potterton Hall - 0.52 km
• Barn With Integral Stables Approximately 15 Metres North of East Wing Potterton Hall - 0.55 km
• Medieval Crossbase and War Memorial - 1.18 km
• The Old Rectory - 1.23 km
• Milestone opposite junction with Kiddal Lane - 1.27 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Potterton

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

• Deserted medieval village of Potterton - 0.26 km
• Length of linear earthwork known as The Ridge, part of the Aberford Dyke system, 560m east of Potterton Bridge - 0.46 km
• Barwick in Elmet large univallate hillfort and motte and bailey castle - 1.1 km

Potterton Today

Today Potterton lies within the administrative area of Barwick in Elmet and Scholes.

Read more about modern Potterton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Barwick in Elmet - 1.4 km SW
• Kiddal Hall - 1.4 km NW
• Cowthwaite - 2.2 km NE
• Monk Hay Stile - 2.2 km NE
• Parlington - 2.8 km SE
• Thorner - 3.6 km NW