Salton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Salton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Maneshou in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Maneshou
- Amotherby
- Ampleforth
- Appleton [le Street]
- Beadlam
- Brawby
- Broughton
- Cawton
- Coulton
- Fadmoor
- Fryton
- Gillamoor
- Gilling [East]
- Griff [Farm]
- Grimston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Salton 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 Salton.
Listed Buildings Near Salton
Historic England records 8 listed buildings within about a mile of Salton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St John of Beverley - 0.51 km
Grade II
- Gates and Gate Piers Approximately 70 Metres North of Manor Farmhouse - 0.44 km
- Red House Farmhouse - 0.49 km
- Manor Farmhouse - 0.51 km
- Gates and Gate Piers Approximately 20 Metres North West of Manor Farmhouse - 0.52 km
- Harrison and Taylor Table Tombs Approximately 7 Metres South of the Church of St John of Beverley - 0.52 km
- Salton Bridge - 0.53 km
- High North Holme Farmhouse - 1.11 km
Salton Today
Today Salton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 73 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 Salton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- North Holme House - 1.0 km W
- Normanby - 2.2 km NE
- East and West Ness - 2.2 km SW
- Brawby - 2.8 km SE
- Middelham - 3.0 km W
- Great Barugh - 3.2 km E
Heritage Around Salton
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.
© Phil Catterall · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Pauline E · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Matthew Hatton · 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.
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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