Rillington in the Domesday Book (1086)

Rillington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Scard in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Rillington at 0.5 carucates of taxable land.

At the time of the survey, Rillington supported a recorded population of 4 villagers, 2 smallholders, working 2 ploughs between them.

The survey puts Rillington’s value at 3 shillings, the same as before the Conquest. Unchanged valuations are relatively rare in the North, where disruption was widespread.

Resources Recorded at Rillington (1086)

• Churches: 1

Other Settlements in Scard

• Birdsall
• Buckton [Holms]
• Burdale
• Duggleby
• Kennythorpe
• Langton
• Linton
• Norton
• Scagglethorpe
• Scampston
• Settrington
• Sutton [Grange]
• Thorpe [Bassett]
• Towthorpe

The Meaning of the Name

The name Rillington 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 Rillington.

Listed Buildings Near Rillington

Historic England records 22 listed buildings within about a mile of Rillington. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of Saint Andrew - 0.37 km

Grade II*

• Church of All Saints - 1.04 km

Grade II

• The Coach and Horses - 0.31 km
• Bethesda Chapel - 0.32 km
• 3, Westgate - 0.34 km
• Holly House - 0.38 km
• Church Farmhouse - 0.47 km
• Park View and Attached Garage and Outbuilding - 0.52 km
• Stable Block Approximately Twenty Metres South-west of Rillington Manor - 0.52 km
• Rectory Farmhouse - 0.52 km
• Rillington Manor - 0.53 km
• Park Farmhouse - 0.63 km
• Milestone Approximately 40 Metres West of the Gates to Scampston Hall - 0.67 km
• The Lodge to Scampston Hall - 0.72 km
• Gates, Gate Piers, Flanking Walls and Railings Approximately One Metre South of the Lodge to Scampston Hall - 0.73 km
• Holly Tree House - 1.05 km
• Dovecote Approximately 40 Metres North-east of Manor Cottages - 1.08 km
• Church of St Martin - 1.11 km
• Keeper’s Cottage - 1.15 km
• Scampston Bridge - 1.16 km
• Cundill Cottage and Dallimore Cottage - 1.17 km
• Entrance Gates and Gate Piers Approximately 180 Metres West of Scampston Hall - 1.24 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Rillington

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

• Iron Age barrow cemetery, East Field - 0.29 km

Rillington Today

Today Rillington lies within the administrative area of Ryedale, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,206 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 Rillington on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Thorpe Bassett - 1.0 km S
• Scampston - 1.4 km NE
• Scagglethorpe - 2.8 km SW
• Knapton - 3.2 km E
• Wintringham - 3.2 km E
• Newton - 3.6 km SE