Sancton in the Domesday Book (1086)

Sancton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Weighton in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Weighton

• Cleaving [Grange]
• Easthorpe
• Goodmanham
• Harswell
• Holme [upon Spalding Moor]
• Houghton
• Kipling Cotes
• Londesborough
• Shipton[thorpe]
• Torp
• Torpi
• Towthorpe
• [Bishop] Burton
• [Market] Weighton

The Meaning of the Name

The name Sancton 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 Sancton.

Listed Buildings Near Sancton

Historic England records 9 listed buildings within about a mile of Sancton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

• Houghton Hall - 0.84 km

Grade II*

• Church of All Saints - 0.36 km

Grade II

• White House - 0.34 km
• The White Row - 0.43 km
• Valley Farmhouse - 0.47 km
• Barn Facing West to East of Inman Cottage - 0.67 km
• Ha-ha to South of Houghton Hall - 0.87 km
• Coachhouse and Stabling to Houghton Hall - 0.96 km
• Dovecote - 1.0 km

Sancton Today

Today Sancton lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 303 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 Sancton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Houghton - 0.0 km N
• North Cliffe - 2.8 km SW
• Market Weighton - 2.8 km NW
• South Cliffe - 3.6 km SW
• Goodmanham - 4.1 km N
• North and South Newbald - 4.5 km SE