Ruston Parva in the Domesday Book (1086)

Ruston Parva appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Burton

• Binnington
• Boythorpe
• Burton [Agnes]
• Butterwick
• Carnaby
• Fornetorp
• Ganton
• Gransmoor
• Haisthorpe
• Harpham
• Kilham
• Langtoft
• Lowthorpe
• Octon

The Meaning of the Name

The name Ruston Parva 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 Ruston Parva.

Listed Buildings Near Ruston Parva

Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Ruston Parva. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Church of Saint Nicholas - 0.2 km

Grade II

• Cross Base Approximately 130 Metres North of Church of St Nicholas - 0.29 km
• The Old Mill - 1.07 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Ruston Parva

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

• Bowl barrow on Fox Hill - 1.0 km
• St Martin’s collegiate church and medieval standing cross, Lowthorpe - 1.46 km

Ruston Parva Today

Today Ruston Parva lies within the administrative area of Harpham.

Read more about modern Ruston Parva on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Lowthorpe - 1.4 km SE
• Pockthorpe - 2.8 km NW
• Harpham - 3.0 km E
• Kilham - 3.0 km N
• Nafferton - 3.2 km S
• Little Kelk - 3.6 km SE