The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Scackleton, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The name Scackleton 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 Scackleton.

Listed Buildings Near Scackleton

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Scackleton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Coulton Mill: corn mill, house, and farm buildings - 1.24 km

Grade II

Manor Farmhouse - 0.32 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Scackleton

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

Moated site and ridge and furrow cultivation 230m south east of Manor Farm - 0.23 km
Round barrow 150m north west of Home Farm - 0.96 km

Scackleton Today

Today Scackleton lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 112 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 Scackleton on Wikipedia .