Scotton Thorpe in the Domesday Book (1086)

Scotton Thorpe 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 Thorpe 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 Thorpe.

Listed Buildings Near Scotton Thorpe

Historic England records 5 listed buildings within about a mile of Scotton Thorpe. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• The Nookin - 1.19 km

Grade II

• Highfield House - 0.96 km
• Church of All Saints - 1.02 km
• Number 5 (Holly Cottage) With Number 3 - 1.23 km
• Numbers 4 and 5 Bentley Square - 1.26 km

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

• Temple Newsam - 1.4 km NE
• Rothwell - 1.4 km SW
• Thorpe Stapleton - 1.4 km NW
• Carlton - 2.8 km SW
• Skelton Grange - 2.8 km NW
• Great and Little Preston - 3.2 km E