Scotton in the Domesday Book (1086)
Scotton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Burghshire in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Burghshire
- Addlethorpe
- Aismunderby
- Aldfield
- Allerton [Mauleverer]
- Arkendale
- Askwith
- Azerley
- Barrowby [Grange]
- Beckwith [House]
- Besthaim
- Bestham
- Bewerley
- Bilton
- Birstwith
The Meaning of the Name
The name Scotton 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 Scotton.
Listed Buildings Near Scotton
Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Scotton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
- Scotton Old Hall - 0.11 km
Grade II
- The Old Manor House - 0.04 km
- Group of three chest tombs 4 metres north of south wall of Quaker burial ground - 0.11 km
- Headstone of John Dodson in Quaker Burial Ground Approximately 10 Metres From the South Wall - 0.12 km
- Headstone of Ann Hogg in Quaker Burial Ground Approximately 10 Metres From the East Wall and 15 Metres From the South Wall - 0.13 km
- Headstone of Margaret Middleton in Quaker Burial Ground Approximately 5 Metres From the East Wall and 10 Metres From the South Wall and Facing West - 0.13 km
- Walls to Quaker Burial Ground With Remains of Building in South West Corner - 0.14 km
- Barn Approximately 30 Metres North West of Scotton Old Hall - 0.15 km
- Manor Farm House - 0.32 km
- Scotton Lodge - 0.46 km
Scotton Today
Today Scotton lies within the administrative area of Harrogate, and the settlement recorded a population of 696 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 Scotton on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Scotton
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.
© R J McNaughton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© DS Pugh · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Robin Hall · 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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