The settlement of Preston Patrick is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Amounderness in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Preston Patrick at 6.8 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Preston Patrick supported a recorded population of 13 villagers, 10 smallholders, 6 slaves, working 8 ploughs between them.

The survey records Preston Patrick’s value at 6 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.

Resources Recorded at Preston Patrick (1086)

Mills: 1 mill (valued at 10d)
Meadow: 16 acres
Woodland: 2 * 2 furlongs

Other Settlements in Amounderness

The Meaning of the Name

The name Preston Patrick 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 Preston Patrick.

Listed Buildings Near Preston Patrick

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Preston Patrick. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Preston Patrick Hall - 0.31 km

Grade II

Preston Patrick Today

Today Preston Patrick lies within the administrative area of South Lakeland, and the settlement recorded a population of 410 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 Preston Patrick on Wikipedia .