Scotton appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

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 2 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 House - 0.79 km
Army Education Centre, Catterick Garrison - 1.16 km

Scotton Today

Today Scotton lies within the administrative area of Richmondshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,825 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:

Tunstall - 2.0 km E
Brough Hall - 2.8 km NE
Hunton - 3.2 km S
Hipswell - 3.2 km N
East Hauxwell - 3.6 km SW
West Hauxwell - 3.6 km SW

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.

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Scotton in the Domesday Book (1086)