Rowton Farm in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Rowton Farm, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]

• Aldbrough
• Benningholme [Hall]
• Bewick [Hall]
• Bilton
• Burton [Constable]
• Burton [Pidsea]
• Conis[ton]
• Danthorpe
• Dowthorpe [Hall]
• Drypool
• Ellerby
• Elstronwick
• Eske
• Etherdwick

The Meaning of the Name

The name Rowton Farm 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 Rowton Farm.

Listed Buildings Near Rowton Farm

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Rowton Farm. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Church of St Augustine - 0.95 km

Grade II

• Rowton Villas, Offices of Holderness Borough Council - 0.58 km
• Springfield House - 0.96 km
• South Lodge - 1.04 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Rise - 1.4 km NE
• Benningholme Hall - 1.4 km SW
• North Skirlaugh - 1.4 km SE
• Chenecol - 2.2 km NW
• Chenucol - 2.2 km NW
• Chenuthesholm - 2.2 km NW