Rolston in the Domesday Book (1086)
Rolston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]
- Arnestorp
- Arram
- Barmston
- Beeford
- Bewholme
- Brandesburton
- Catfoss [Hall]
- Catwick
- Chenecol
- Chenucol
- Chenuthesholm
- Cleeton
- Dringhoe
- Dunnington
The Meaning of the Name
The name Rolston 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 Rolston.
Rolston Today
Today Rolston lies within the administrative area of Mappleton.
Read more about modern Rolston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Hornsea Burton - 1.4 km NW
- Southorpe - 2.2 km NW
- Hornsea - 2.2 km NW
- Mappleton - 2.2 km SE
- Goxhill - 3.2 km W
- Great Cowden - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Rolston
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.
© David Wright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© David Wright · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Christine Church · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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.
Location
53.8912°N, -0.1510°W · Holderness [North Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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