Reighton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hunthow in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Hunthow

The Meaning of the Name

The name Reighton 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 Reighton.

Listed Buildings Near Reighton

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

Grade II*

Church of Saint Peter - 0.54 km

Grade II

1 and 2, Watson’s Lane - 0.35 km
Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding - 0.36 km
Johnson’s Farmhouse - 0.47 km
Beech Cottage - 0.48 km
The Old Vicarage - 0.6 km
The Old Vicarage - 0.61 km
Stable Block Approximately 20 Metres North of Reighton Hall - 1.02 km
Reighton Hall - 1.02 km
Dovecote Approximately 75 Metres to East of Reighton Hall - 1.05 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Reighton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Reighton:

Round barrow E of Reighton House - 0.79 km
Round barrow SE of Moor Farm - 1.34 km

Reighton Today

Today Reighton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 393 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 Reighton on Wikipedia .